Layers of the Earth
Crustal Plates and Boundaries
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
A hard crisp covering or surface.
What is Crust?
100
the scientific name for crustal plates
what are tectonic plates?
100
Movement occurs along here
What is a fault line
100
the liquid rock changes from magma to this substance when it exits the mouth of a volcano
What is lava
200
The solid layer in the center is made of Iron and Nickel.
What is the Inner Core?
200
this is the name when two boundaries pushing toward each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
200
Waves arrive second and move the ground from side to side
What is secondary
200
this is combination of hot ash and gasses.
What is pyroclastic flow
300
The liquid layer in the center of the Earth is made of Iron and Nickel.
What is the Outer Core?
300
a theory when all the continents fit together and made one.
What is pangea ?
300
Waves travel fastest and cause up and down movement
What is primary
300
these shoot out of volcanos and are used as an explosive in warfare.
What are bombs
400
Is much hotter and has the ability to flow.
What is the Mantle?
400
the tectonic plates move in many different dircetions convergent, divergent, and transform.
What the 3 boundaries?
400
the center of an Earthquake
What is epicenter
400
an eruption cloud rains this substance.
What is acid rain
500
Is 800 miles thick.
What is the Inner Core?
500
this layer holds the liquid that our tectonic plates and oceanic plates float on.
What is the asthenosphere?
500
Earthquake energy moves radially outwards
What is focus
500
this fills the air when a volcano eruption occurs
What is an eruption cloud