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Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Layers of Earth
Volcanoes
Misc.
100
Lava below the earth crust is called ?
What is magma.
100
Melted rock that flows out onto Earth's surface is...
Lava
100
Name the first layer of Earth. (on Earth's surface)
crust
100
Name a volcano in the US that is an island?
What is Hawaii?
100
When all the Earth's crust were together was called?
What is Pangea.
200
Scientists measure earthquake waves with a...
seismograph
200
If you somehow dug down to Earth's center, the first two layers you would pass through are the...
crust and mantle
200
What is the largest layer of the earth.
What is the mantle.
200
Mountains made of lava layers that alternate with layers of cinders are called...
Composite volcanoes
200
The plates of Earth's crust and mantle can NOT usually move... a)toward each other b) away from each other c)very slowly d)Very quickly
very quickly
300
A vibration of Earth's crust is an...
earthquake
300
Hot melted rock that is underground is called...
magma
300
Name the deepest layer of Earth.
core
300
Volcanoes can be useful to people because volcanoes...
add minerals to the soil.
300
Earth quakes can occur around these type of lines...
fault
400
A large basin that can form at the top of a volcano is a...
crater
400
The deepest layer of Earth is the...
core
400
What is the lithosphere located between?
Crust and the (Asthenosphere) Mantle.
400
A mountain that forms from lava is a ...
volcano
400
The layer of Earth that is the liquid iron and nickel alloy...
outer core
500
Most of the magma from a volcano comes up through a rocky opening called a...
vent
500
The point of Earth's surface that is directly above an earthquake's focus is the...
epicenter
500
The Core of the earth is made of what and what form? to.... (name 2 things)
Solid Iron
500
Name one of two places where a volcano is most likely to form.
where plates move toward each other, in the ocean where plates are moving away from each other.
500
The point underground where the movement of the earthquake first takes place is called...
focus