Earth
This is the layer on the outermost edge of the Earth. (Solid ground)
What is the crust?
The border where two tectonic plates meet.
What is a plate boundary?
This type of crust is more dense and found on the sea floor.
What is oceanic crust?
This is the plate that all of this room are currently on.
What is the North American plate?
This forms when graupel and ice crystals in a cloud build up different charges and eventually release a lot of energy at once.
What is lightning?
This layer of the Earth is made up of semi-solid molten rock.
What is the mantle?
A boundary in which plates are moving towards each other.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
This type of crust is more bouyant.
What is continental crust?
Non-volcanic mountain ranges are usually formed when both converging plates are this type of crust.
What is continental?
This forms when a warm updraft bends a horizontal tunnel of air towards the earth.
What is a tornado?
This layer of the Earth is made up of mostly iron and has an inner and outer section.
What is the core?
A boundary in which plate are moving away from each other.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
If the two types of crust meet at a convergent plate boundary, this type is more likely to become the overriding plate.
What is continental crust?
A weak spot in a tectonic plate that allows volcanoes to sprout up without being at a boundary is known as this.
What is a mantle hotspot?
This is the most damaging aspect of a hurricane.
What is storm surge?
This layer of the Earth is split into many different sections known as plates.
What is the crust?
A boundary in which plates slide past each other.
What is a transform plate boundary?
If a plate slides under another plate it is known as doing this.
What is subducting?
When divergent plates create a separation at the sea floor allowing volcanic activity and new crust to be formed it is known as this structure.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
The world's largest active volcano is located in this U.S. state.
What is Hawaii?
The convection currents in this layer are responsible for continental drift.
What is the mantle?
The San Andreas Fault in California is one of the most closely monitored fault lines. It is one of these types of plate boundaries.
What is a transform plate boundary?
Most volcanoes happen at this type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
When divergent plates create a separation of land it is known as this.
What is a rift valley?
This is the nickname given to the area surrounding the Pacific that is a hotbed for both earthquakes and volcanoes.
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?