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Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Plate Boundaries
Layers of the Earth
Grab Bag
100
The exact point deep in the Earth's crust that is the center point of an earthquake.
What is the focus?
100
The type of volcano that oozes hot lava.
What is a shield volcano?
100
This type of plate boundary results in the formation of mountains.
What is a Colliding Boundary?
100
This is the layer of the Earth we live on.
What is the crust?
100
This is the name of the supercontinent that is believed to have existed millions of years ago before the continents drifted apart.
What is Pangea?
200
The point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
200
The type of volcano that erupts violently and shoots ash and smoke up into the air.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
200
This type of boundary causes earthquakes.
What is a fracture boundary?
200
This layer of the Earth is a giant spinning ball of solid iron.
What is the Inner Core?
200
The different chunks of the Earth's crust are called this.
What are tectonic plates?
300
The number one way people are injured or killed during an earthquake.
What are falling objects?
300
This is what causes volcanoes to explode.
What is hot gasses?
300
The places where tectonic plates meet.
What are faults?
300
This layer of the Earth is liquid metal.
What is the Outer Core?
300
The name of the device used to measure the intensity of earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
400
The scale used to measure the intensity of earthquakes.
What is the Richter Scale?
400
This volcano alternates between erupting ash and lava.
What is a strato cone volcano.
400
The theory that states that Earth's plates are constantly moving.
What is the theory of Plate Tectonics?
400
This is the largest layer of the Earth.
What is the Mantle?
400
The name given to the edges of the Pacific Plate where most of the world's Earthquakes occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
The place where earthquakes occur.
What is a fault?
500
This is the pool of magma that rises up through a volcano.
What is a magma plume?
500
This plate boundary is also called seafloor spreading.
What is a spreading boundary?
500
This layer of the Earth includes the crust and the upper part of the mantle.
What is the Lithosphere?
500
The force that causes the Earth's plates to bump and slide.
What is Convection Currents?