What is the piece of land that is surrounded by water called?
Island
100
What is a volcano?
A cone-shaped mountain that forms around a vent where magma is forced to the surface.
100
What is the shaking of the earth's crust called?
An earthquake
200
What is the layer that surrounds the core called?
The mantle
200
What is the name of the theory that states that the continents were once a single landform?
a. plate tectonics
b. continental drift
c. seafloor spreading
d. transform boundary
a. continental drift
200
What landforms are created when tectonic plates collide or when one plate is subducted below the other?
Mountain
200
Magma that flows out of a volcano is called __________?
Lava
200
What do you call a scientist who studies earthquakes?
A seismologist
300
What is the outermost layer of the earth called?
The crust
300
What is a large moving section of the earth's crust called?
a. tectonic plates
b. boundary
c. earthquake
d. volcano
a. tectonic plates
300
Name the type of boundary that forms when two plates separate.
Divergent boundary
300
Which of the following is NOT a type of volcano?
a. cinder cone volcano
b. shield volcano
c. mantle volcano
d. composite volcano
c. mantle volcano
300
What is the name of the scale that guages an earthquake's strength?
Richter scale
400
On which layer do you find magma?
The mantle.
400
What is the process of forming a new ocean floor
Seafloor spreading
400
Name the type of boundary that forms when two plates slide past one another.
Transform boundary
400
List the three states of a volcano.
Active
Dormant
Extinct
400
What is the large, forceful wave called that is triggered by ocean floor earthquakes?
A tsunami
500
Name the fruit that we cut open in class.
State the different parts of the fruit and which layer of the earth it represents.
A peach.
Peach pit - core
Orange flesh of peach - mantle
Fuzzy part of peach - crust
500
What do convenction currents do?
a. make volcanoes
b. cause earthquakes
c. push tectonic plates
c. push tectonic plates
500
Name the type of boundary formed when two plates collide.
Convergent boundary
500
Where does magma come out from?
a. a vent
b. a hole
c. a plate