Earth Structure
The hottest part of the earth
What is the inner core?
When two plates moving away from each other
What is divergent plate boundaries?
The name of how an earthquake is measured
What is a magnitude?
An active region for volcanic activity
What is the Ring of Fire?
What is wealth, time, population and weather?
What is the crust?
The 3 main plate boundaries
What is convergent, divergent and transform?
The center of the earthquake
What is the epicentre?
An outpouring of hot mixture that moves at speed down the sides of a volcano
What is a pyroclastic flow?
Response that ensures water/electricity are working
What is a mid-term response?
The movement of plates in the mantle
What is convection currents?
What is Pangea?
The scale to measure earthquakes
What is the Richter Scale?
The most common type of volcano
What is a composite volcano?
The location that had the worst tsunami and earthquake in history
What is the Indian Ocean?
The temperature of the layers in the earth
What is between 4000 to 6000 degrees Celsius?
The process of subduction
What is when oceanic crust collides with continental crust?
A person who records the strength of an earthquake
What is a Seismologist?
The process of a volcanic eruption
What is a build of pressure and magma breaking through the crust?
Causes of a Tsunami
What is an earthquake and volcanic eruption on the seabed of the ocean?
The layers of the earth
What is the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust?
The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
What is the Lithosphere?
The location in the crust where plates get stuck and build up pressure to release
What is the focus?
What is benefiting farming?
The name of the volcano that erupted in Nepal
What is Mt. Merapi?