Layers of the Earth
Which layer of the Earth is the thickest?
What is the mantle?
Melted rock below Earth's surface
What is magma?
Define Earth's plates
What are giant slabs of rock?
Breaking down Earth's surface is called _________.
What is Weathering?
The thinnest layer of the Earth
What is the crust?
What are the 4 layers of the Earth?
What is the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust?
Mountains of fire are called _________
What are volcanoes?
When two plates move away from each other a _______ boundary occurs.
What is Diverging?
Carrying away sediment by moving water, wind or ice is called _________.
What is erosion?
Although the hottest layer of the Earth, this layer is solid metal
What is the inner core?
The only liquid layer of the earth
What is the Outer Core?
Shock waves of energy created when the crust shakes are called ____________
What are seismic waves?
Name the line formed when two plates slide past each other.
What is a fault line?
Dropping or releasing sediment is called ________.
What is deposition?
A high landform with a flat surface
What is a plateau?
One of the types of rock found in the core of the earth
What is iron or nickel?
The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus where the earthquake is the strongest
What is the epicenter?
When 2 plates move toward each other (Converging Boundaries) what is formed?
What are mountains and volcanoes?
When water freezes and thaws in cracks of rocks this is happening
What is weathering?
The scale used to measure the strength of an earthquake
What is the Richter scale?
The Earth's crust is thinnest under the _____________________ and thickest under the _____________________.
What is thinnest under the ocean and thickest under the continents?
The name of the area on Earth where many volcanoes and earthquakes occur
What is the Ring of Fire?
What is Pangea?
What is the name of the super continent that existed million of years ago?
Sand dunes formed on the beach are created because of this
What is deposition?
A type of map that shows Earth's features and their height above sea level
What is a topographic map?