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What is Earth's Structure?
How does the crust move?
What causes earthquakes and volcanoes?
Vocabulary
100
Melted part of the Earth.
What is the Outer core
100
New ocean crust forms here..
What is rift zone
100
What are the three types of volcanoes?
What is cinder cone, composite, shield
100
The surface of the Earth
What is the crust
200
The Parts of the Mantle
What is the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
200
Which type of plate border will a trench most likely form?
What is Convergence between a continental plate and an oceanic plate.
200
Which type of wave moves only through solids?
What is S-waves
200
The inner layer of the Earth
What is the core
300
Element that dominates Earth's core
What is iron
300
True or False. Tectonic Plates move quickly across the world.
What is False, they move very slowly.
300
At which type of fault does the hanging wall move up?
What is the Reverse fault
300
A tearing force that pulls on the rubbing surfaces
What is shear force
400
The least dense layer of the planet
What is the crust
400
What type of boundary forms between the North American and Eurasian Plates?
What is divergent
400
Mixture of deadly gases that rolls down the volcano?
What is pyroclastic flow
400
Broad mountain with gently sloping flanks
What is a shield volcano
500
What are the three interpretations of Geology?
What is uniformitarianism, neocatastrophism, short-age geology
500
What is subduction?
What is when denser crust is pushed below less dense crust into the mantle, where it melts.
500
How does a caldera form?
A crater and the land around collapses after an eruption
500
The rock below the fault
What is the foot wall