Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Layers of the Earth
In class Video
100
a mountain that forms when red-hot melted rock flows through a crack onto the earth's surface.
What is a volcano?
100
a vibration, or shaking, of Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
100
deepest layer of earth
What is the core?
100
The area on Earth that contains the most volcanoes?
What is the ring of fire?
200
melted rock inside the earth
What is magma?
200
a break in the Earth's crust along which rocks move.
What is a fault?
200
thickest layer of Earth
What is the mantle?
200
the name of the volcano that produced the loudest sound in recorded history.
What is Krakatoa
300
the rocky tube inside a volcanoe through which magma travels?
What is conduit?
300
underground point where an earthquake first starts
What is the focus?
300
layer of earth that includes land and the ocean floor.
What is the crust?
300
the two places in the US that have the most earthquakes
What are California and Alaska?
400
melted rock that reaches the earth's surface
What is lava?
400
instrument scientist use to measure earthquake waves
What is a seismograph?
400
continent-sized slabs that make up the crust and upper mantle.
What are plates?
400
the larges fault line in California
What is the San Andreas Fault?
500
shield, composite, and cinder cone
What are the 3 types of volcanoes?
500
point on the Earth's surface right above the focus of an earthquake
What is the epicenter
500
nickle and iron
What are the metals that make of the core?
500
the volcano that buried the city of Pompeii
What is Mt. Vesuvius
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