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Potpourri
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What is the largest layer of Earth made up of molten & solid rock?
What is Mantle
100
Volcanoes form where plates move away from one another at an area called-
What is divergent boundaries
100
Large continent sized blocks of the earth's crust
What is plates
100
Melted rock or magma that reaches the earth's surface
What is lava
100
The process of plate movement
What is Continental drift.
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This layer at the center of the Earth is made up of solid iron and nickel.
What is inner core
200
Tha Appalachian Mountain range was formed by plates that moved toward each other called -
What is divergent plates
200
This happens when you move closer to the center of the earth.
What is pressure and temperature increase.
200
type of plate boundary pictured
What is sliding, strikeslip, or transform
200
This theory states that all of the continents were once together as one continent called -
What is PANGEA
300
The thin, outer layer of Earth that is deeper under the continents than the oceans is known as the-
What is crust
300
An underwater trench occurs when two plates -
What is converge
300
Causes the movements of plates
What is Earth's heat energy.
300
The type of boundary shown
What is divergent boundary
300
Most of Earth's new crust comes from
What is magma that erupts from divergent boundaries and volcanoes.
400
An extremely hot layer where nickel and iron melt into a thick liquid state is called the -
What is outer core
400
The boundaries between plates are called -
What is faults
400
A hole in the earth's crust that allows magma to flow to the Earth's surface.
What is a volcano
400
The type of boundary shown
What is convergent boundary.
400
Evidence that the earth's is constantly changing
What is all of its Geological Features
500
The thickest and thinnest layers of Earth are the-
What is mantle and crust
500
Earthquakes occur at which type of boundary?
What is a -convergent boundary b-divergent boundary c-sliding, strikeslip, or transform boundary d tectonic plate boundary
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A shaking of the earth's surface, caused by the release of stored energy along a fault is called-
What is an earthquake
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A word that means melted, hot rock
What is Molten
500
Name the four layers of the earth in order starting with the layer we live on to the center of the earth.
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, inner core.