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Layers of the Earth
Crustal plates boundaries
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Vocabulary
100
The softest layer of the Earth.
What is Crust?
100
Stress that occurs when focus acts to squeezes an object!
What is compression?
100
The strongest and the fastest earthquake wave.
What is P-wave?
100
an opening at the surface of the Earth through which volcanic materials passes
What is a vent?
100
A vent or fissure in the Earth's surface through which magma and gasses are expelled
What is a volcano?
200
The outermost rigid layer of the Earth
What is lithosphere?
200
Stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object
What is tension?
200
The place where earthquakes are the weakest
Where is Florida?
200
the body of molten rock that feeds a volcano
What is magma chamber?
200
the study of Earthquakes
What is seismology?
300
The core of the Earth is made out of.
What is Iron and Nickel?
300
The bending of rock layers due to stress
What is folding?
300
The place where earthquakes are the strongest.
Where is California?
300
A funnel shaped pit near the top of the central vent of a volcano
What is a crater?
300
The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single land mass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations
What is continental drift?
400
The only liquid layer
What is the outer core?
400
A break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another
What is fault?
400
To measure strength a of earthquake
What is Richter Scale?
400
A volcanically active area of Earths surface far from a tectonic plate boundary
What is a hot spot?
400
The central part of the Earth below the mantle
What is the core?
500
the hottest layer of the earth
What is the inner core?
500
The rising of a regions of the earth's crust to higher elevations.
What is uplift?
500
A earthquake happens because of this boundary
What is Transform boundary?
500
An area of deep cracks that forms between two tectonic plates
What is a rift zone?
500
a seismic wave that causes particles of rock to move in a side-to-side direction
What is a s wave?