Earth Layers
Volcanoes
Boundaries
Earthquakes
Miscellaneous
100
The earth is composed primarily of this
What is rock?
100
Most of Earth's volcanoes are found here.-
What is tectonic plate boundaries?
100
Boundary where new material (crust) is created
What is divergent boundary?
100
The scientist who studies earthquakes
What is seismologist?
100
What geological event causes islands to form in the Pacific Ocean?-
What is volcanic eruptions?
200
The outer layer of the earth
What is the crust?
200
Hot, molten rock that flows from a volcano
What is lava?
200
Boundary where plate material (crust) is destroyed
What is convergent boundary?
200
The type of seismic wave that is the fastest and moves by compressing and expanding like an accordion
What is P wave?
200
The plate that is thicker than the oceanic plate
What is the continental plate?
300
Earth's inner core is composed primarily of this
What is solid iron and nickel?
300
The Ring of Fire, a region with many active volcanoes, circles this ocean
What is Pacific?
300
The boundary that most of the world's greatest mountain ranges occur near
What is convergent boundary?
300
The waves generated by an earthquake that travel through a medium.
What is mechanical waves?
300
The layer of the earth that is a convective layer
What is the mantle?
400
The layer of the earth divided into plates.
What is the crust?
400
These places create isolated volcanic islands, such as Hawaii.-
What are hot spots?
400
When rock layers are stretched apart at divergent boundaries
What is tension?
400
The instrument that records vibrations in the ground and determines the location and strength of an earthquake.
What is seismograph?
400
Sea floor spreading creates these geological formations.-
Mid-ocean ridges
500
The solid outer layer of the Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper layer of the mantle
What is the lithosphere?
500
Three places where volcanoes occur.-
What is hot spots, subduction zones, or divergent boundaries? (any of these are correct)
500
The process taking place in the pic.
what is Subduction or subduction zone.-
500
The seismic wave that causes the most damage
What is surface wave?
500
The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and trigger an earthquake
What is the focus?