Membranae Terrae
The outermost layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
The equation for density.
Density = Mass/Volume
An example of a continent.
North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Eurasia, etc.
The name for the center of an earthquake on the surface.
Epicenter
What Latin word/name does Volcano come from?
Vulcan
The layer in the Earth where convection currents occur.
What is the asthenosphere?
The movement of fluids up and down by means of heat and changes in density.
What is a convection current?
The scientific model that tectonic plates move continents slowly.
What is continental drift?
The device used to measure earthquakes.
Seismograph.
What are the three types of volcanoes?
Shield, Cinder Cone, Composite.
The boundary between the mantle and the core.
What is the Gutenberg Discontinuity?
If an object has a density of 5 units, and it is placed in a liquid with a density of 10 units, will the object float or sink?
It will float.
The plate boundary that slides past one another.
What is a transform boundary?
What is the other name for the focus of an earthquake?
Hypocenter.
The resistance to flow of a liquid.
What is viscosity?
What is iron?
Convection currents in the asthenosphere move what?
Tectonic Plates.
The plate boundary that causes the most volcanic mountains.
What is a convergent boundary?
What does the S in S-Wave stand for?
Secondary
Quiet eruptions require what kind of viscosity?
Low.
What the outer core protects us from.
What is solar radiation?
When heat is applied to a substance, what happens to the density?
It decreases.
The theory that all continents were one supercontinent.
What is pangea?
The wave-type of a P-wave (hint: the spring).
Compression
The definition of a volcano.
A rupture in the earth's crust, allowing lava, ash, and gas to escape and producing a mountain.