Vocab
Earth's layers
Earthquakes and Tsunamis
facts
Types of Mountains
100
Geology
What is the makeup of the earth and the processes that change the shape is called?
100
Describe the characteristics of the Inner core
What is solid, made of very hot metal, hot as the sun's surface, innermost layer
100
the relationship between earthquakes and faults
Hint: what is happening at the fault line?
What are huge blocks of rocks moving along faults?
100
when seafloor dips down as one tectonic plate slides under another narrow deep valley
What is an ocean trench? 
100
Describe Fold mountains with examples
formed when rocks are pushed up into huge folds by moving plate tectonics
-lots of sedimentary rock
-EX: Himalayas, Alps, Appalachians of North America, Urals
200
define myths
What is an explanation of an unpredictable natural event
200
Describe the characteristics of the mantle
What is earth's largest and thickest layer, very hot and dense rock
200
Alfred Wegner's hypothesis
list his 3 ideas
What is the continental drift hypothesis?
List his ideas
Pangea
climate change
plants and animals were separated because of continents drifting
200
When oceanic plates move away from one another and form cracks in earth's crust, also called an underwater mountain
What is a mid ocean ridge?
200
Describe dome mountains with examples
-formed when magma pushes upward into Earth's crust from the mantle and cools into igneous rock causing the crust to bulge
-flat plains
-EX: Utah's Navajo mountains, Black Hills of South Dakota
300
a volcano that has not erupted for at least 10,000 years and not likely to erupt
What is extinct?
300
Describe the characteristics of the Crust
What is think, rocky, outermost layer, 2 types continental and oceanic
300
characteristics of Tsunamis (3 examples)
What is
form when earthquakes occur
travel fast 500 MPH
grow as tall as 3-4 story building
300
moving apart, colliding, and sliding sideways are 3 ways in which ______ move?
what are tectonic plates?
300
Describe Fault-block mountains with examples
formed when gigantic blocks of rock move up and down along faults
ex: Germany's Harz mountains, Grand Tetons, Basin and Range, Nevada and Arizona
400
A volcano that hasn't erupted for a long time but could erupt again
What is dormant?
400
Describe the characteristics of the Outer core
What is liquid, made if very hot metal
400
Definition: the violent shaking of the ground caused by huge blocks of of rock moving along the fault
What is Earthquakes?
400
Numbers used to describe the intensity of earthquakes based on the largest seismic wave recorded
What is the Richter scale?
400
define fault
a crack in Earth's crust
500
a volcano that has erupted in the past 10,000 years and likely to erupt again
What is active
500
Draw the earth's layers with location
500
What do geysers, volcanoes and hot springs have in common?
Hint: 2 things
What are plate boundaries and hotspots?
500
Jagged up and down lines show energy of seismic waves
What is a Seismograph?
500
define geyser
define hotspot
define volcano
geyser: underground hot spring that erupts and shoots hot water and steam 
hotspot: very hot region in Earth's mantle where a huge magma chamber forms
Volcano: hill or mountain that forms over a crack in Earth's crust where lava erupts