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Earthquakes
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The deepest layer inside the Earth is the:
Inner core
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A sudden shaking or vibrations on Earth’s surface caused by sudden movement on Earth, often along a fault, a break in the Earth’s surface
What is an earthquake?
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Substance that flows out of volcanoes
What is lava?
100
Theory that earth's lithosphere (crust) is divided into plates that move is known as...
What is plate tectonics?
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Physical features on Earth's surface.
What are landforms?
200
Pieces of the lithosphere (crust) that move around on top of the earth:
What are Tectonic plates?
200
Deep cracks in the Earth's crust, where blocks slide against one another causing an earthquake
What are faults?
200
Hot soft liquid rock that is within the mantle.
What is magma?
200
The highest mountains form where
Where continental plates collide?
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the process of moving sediment from one place to the next.
What is erosion?
300
The theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have done so in the past.
What is Continental Drift?
300
A scientist who studies rocks and learns about how the Earth is made up
What is a geologist?
300
A mountain formed by lava and ash.
What is a volcano?
300
Magma builds up along cracks forming long chains of mountains under the ocean. These mountains are also known as...
What are mid-ocean ridges?
300
A type of mass movement that occurs slowly.
What is a creep?
400
The downhill movement of soil due to gravity.
What is the mass movement?
400
The amount of energy released by an earthquake
What is magnitude?
400
Two types of volcanoes. DAILY DOUBLE!
What are Shield, Cinder Cone and Composite volcanoes?
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The heaviest tectonic plates...
What are oceanic?
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The dropping or depositing of sediment by water, wind, or ice which can build "up" new land like a sand dune or a delta or sea shells on a beach
What is Deposition?
500
The process of breaking rock into soil.
What is weathering?
500
Plates can interact in three ways.
What is they push together, pull apart and slide past each other?
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Numerous volcanoes lying directly on tectonic plate boundaries in the Pacific Ocean form this
What is the Ring of Fire
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Mountains do not only form at boundary lines, but also
Where pressure from movement at the boundaries pushes a block of rock upward?
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How do fossils support the theory of continental drift?
Fossils of similar plants and animals have been found in different places that were once connected.
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