The crust and the top part of the mantle make up what?
What is the lithosphere
100
What is Earth's surface layer?
What is the crust?
100
What is the name of the innermost layer of the Earth?
What is the core?
100
Which of the following is a geological feature on Earth's surface? tsunami, hot spot, volcano, earthquake
What is a volcano?
100
The place where Earth's slipping motion begins is called an earthquake's what?
What is the focus?
200
What is a fault?
What is a crack in Earth's surface
200
What is the term used for melted rock that reaches the Earth's surface?
What is lava?
200
What layer of Earth's interior lies just below the crust?
What is the mantle?
200
The plate tectonics model states that Earth's crust is made up of what?
What is huge plates of solid rock?
200
What point is directly above the focus of an earthquake?
What is the epicenter?
300
The dry area on the leeward side of a mountain
What is a rain shadow
300
The measure of the weight of air pressing down on an area is called?
What is air pressure?
300
What is a volcano?
What is an opening in Earth's crust where magma flows out?
300
Where does almost all weather occur?
What is the troposphere?
300
The movement of air from the land to the water is called what?
What is a land breeze?
400
What can underwater earthquakes of a great magnitude create?
What is a tsunami
400
Which side of the mountain receives the most rain?
What is the windward side?
400
What device is used to detect and measure earthquake waves?
What is a seismometer?
400
The average weather in a place is called what?
What is the climate?
400
Climate near the equators are __________ while climates near the poles are ____________. Weather between the equators and poles would be ____________.
What is warmer(hotter), cooler(colder), mild
500
Huge slabs of rock moving suddenly against each other in the Earth's crust create?
What is an earthquake?
500
Places with higher altitudes are generally ____________ than places with lower altitudes.
What is cooler?
500
What and where is the Ring of Fire?
What is a circle of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean?
500
Scientists have discovered that mountains on the east coast of South America closely match the mountains on the west coast of Africa. How can two landforms that are so far apart be so similar?
What is continental drift?
500
the place where it begins is called the focus
caused by rocks moving along a fault
magma flows through it
occurs most often near the edges of tectonic plates
has at least one vent
What is earthquakes, earthquakes, volcano, both, volcano