Rocks
What is melted rock in earth's mantle?
What is magma
What is a hill or mountain that forms over a crack in Earth's crust from which lava erupts?
What is a volcano
What is the continuous cycle in which rocks are created, destroyed, and recreated.
What is the rock cycle
What is Earth's deepest layer?
What is the inner core
What is a crack in Earth's crust?
What is a fault
What is heavy, dense rock formed from cooled, hardened lava?
What is basalt
What is a crater
What is the instrument used to track seismic waves traveling through the earth?
What is a seismograph
What is a process in which continents slowly move over time on the surface of earth called?
What is the continental drift
What is a surge of energy traveling out from an earthquake's source through the earth?
What is seismic waves
What is rock that forms when magma cools and solidifies?
What is igneous rock
What is an underground hot spring that periodically erupts, shooting hot water and steam into the air?
What is a geyser
What is a very hot region deep within Earth's mantle where a huge magma chamber forms?
What is a hotspot
What is the theory that Earth's crust and the solid top part of the mantle are broken up into sections that fit together but move against each other
What is plate tectonics
What is a gigantic wave of seawater caused by an earthquake in oceanic crust?
What is a tsunami
What is a common igneous rock that forms from magma that cooled within Earth's crust?
What is granite
What is the place where one tectonic plate is sliding beneath another tectonic plate?
What is subduction zone
What is a scientist who studies the makeup of earth and the forces and processes that shape and change it?
What is a geologist
What are the two layers in Earth's crust? You must list both layers.
What is continental crust and oceanic crust.
What scale or scales do scientists use to measure an earthquake's magnitude?
What is the Mercalli Scale and/or the Richter Scale
What is a dark rock or natural glass formed from lava that cooled very quickly?
What is obsidian
What is the largest active volcano?
What is the Mauna Loa Volcano
What is a column of magma that rises from the mantle into a chamber beneath Earth's crust?
What is plume
What are the layers of Earth?
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core
What is the most famous fault located in California?
What is the San Andreas Fault