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Layers of the Earth
Movement under your feet
Crust
Super Continents
Earthquakes
100
This is the hottest layer of the Earth.
What is the Inner Core
100
The name of the thick land we live on.
What is continental crust?
100
This type of crust is much thicker than the other.
What is continental crust?
100
The name of the super continent that existed 2.5 billion years ago.
What is Pangea?
100
The name of the instrument used to record the strength of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
200
This is the layer of the Earth that we live on.
What is the crust?
200
These occur along tectonic plate boundaries.
What are earthquakes and volcanoes?
200
This kind of crust is thinner and heavier than the other.
What is oceanic crust?
200
The name of the pieces of land that fit together like a puzzle to make up the Earth's Crust.
What are Tectonic Plates?
200
This is the scale that we use to judge the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
300
This is the layer of the Earth that holds Magama.
What is the Mantle?
300
This is what causes the movement of the tectonic plates.
What are convection currents in the mantle?
300
This is a low spot between mountain ranges.
What is a valley?
300
The remains or imprint of an organism that lived long, long ago.
What is a fossil?
300
The name of the place where the earthquake begins.
What is the focus?
400
This is the third layer of the Earth.
What is the outer core?
400
This is the name for hot molten rock when it is inside of the Earth's crust.
What is magma?
400
These mountain like structures have vents inside of them that lead into the mantle of the Earth. Sometimes they erupt in a huge explosion.
What are volcanoes?
400
This happens when two plates collide and one slides under the other.
What is subduction?
400
The place on the Earth's surface where the earthquake causes the most damage.
What is the epicenter?
500
This is the coolest layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
500
This is the name for hot molten rock when it is on the Earth's surface.
What is lava?
500
The cause of the distance between North America and Europe is getting bigger every year.
What is ocean floor spreading?
500
This is the name for what happens when new crust forms where magma rises at mid-ocean ridges.
What is ocean-floor spreading?
500
The name of your science teacher.
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