Basic Layers
What's going on down there?
Density
Tectonic Plates
Orbits
Earthquakes
Volcanos
100
Where the convection currents happen
What is the Mantle?
100
This tiny subatomic particle is responsible for magnetism
What is an Electron?
100
Scientists compare all densities to water, which has this easy to remember density
What is 1.0?
100
This type of boundary splits up and divides
What is divergent boundary?
100
A full lap around the sun is one of these
What is a year?
100
Ricther set up his scale so that a magnitude 2 Earthquake is this many times stronger than a magnitude 1
What is 10 times stronger?
100
When magma comes out of the ground, it goes by this different name
What is Lava?
200
This layer has lots of swirling liquid metal
What is the Outer Core?
200
When magma heats up near the core and cools down near the crust, this powerful cycle is created
What are Convection Currents?
200
We'd have a pretty hard time finding the density of oddly shaped objects without this famous Greek guy and his bathtub
Who is Archimedes?
200
Alfred Wegener correctly predicted this prehistoric super continent, made up of all the continents fitting together like a puzzle
What is Pangea?
200
This special place located between the north an south pole
What is the equator?
200
The main cause of an earthquake
What is movement of the tectonic plates?
200
This famous volcano, which buried the city of Pompeii
What is Mt. Vesuvius?
300
No... not pie! I'm talking about this upper part of the lithosphere!
What is the Crust!
300
At the weakest parts of our magnetic field, you might be lucky enough to see the aurora borealis, caused is this dangerous stellar force
What is Solar Radiation?
300
Density =
What is Mass divided by Volume?
300
This circle of high volcanic and seismic activity caused by the subduction of the pacific plate also happens to be a famous Johnny Cash song
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
The approximate tilt of our planet, which is responsible for our seasons
What is 23.5ยบ?
300
This fastest wave created by earthquakes that dogs can hear!
What is Primary Wave?
300
This leaky type of volcano that formed the hawaiian islands has frequent lava flows which build layers on top of layers
What is a Shield Volcano?
400
Also known as the upper mantle, this place sounds like a greek god and feels like gooey rock
What is the Asthenosphere?
400
The deepest hole ever drilled didn't even piece the crust, so everything we know about the inside of Earth is thanks to this type of activity
What is Seismic Activity (Earthquakes)?
400
Then density for an object that weighs 210g and takes up 70 mL of space (include units!)
What is 3 g/mL?
400
The closest tectonic boundary to us is the San Andreas fault, which is one of these types of rubbing boundaries
What is a transform boundary?
400
When the sun is hitting most directly above the equator, California is in this season
What is summer?
400
By multiplying the delay between the P and S wave, you can determine this about the Earthquake
What is the distance to the epicenter?
400
This most destructive type of volcano forms when viscous magma traps bubbles formed by melting layers of the crust.
What is a stratovolcano?
500
When Earth first formed, these special elements melted the entire Earth, allowing the layers to sort based on density!
What is Radioactive?
500
A fancy name for the strong magnetic field created by the spinning of the Earth's inner and outer core
What is the Geodynamo?
500
50 mL of honey, which has a density of 1.5 g/mL, would weigh this much (include units!)
What is 75 grams?
500
The underlying reason for our tectonic plates to move!
What are the convection currents in the mantle?
500
Places located further from the Equator on Earth are generally colder because of this
What is the curvature of the Earth spreading out the energy of the sun?
500
This specialized machine tracks the movement of the ground
What is a seismometer?
500
A wave of hot ash and tephra from a powerful eruption has this fiery name
What is a pyroclastic flow?