Cores
Natural Disasters
Vocabulary
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Plate Techtronic's
100
What are the 2 cores ?
What is Inner and Outer Core
100
Name 3 Natural Disaster that happen on land .
What is either , Volcano , Earthquake , Flood , Landslide , Avalanche , Blizzard , Hurricane or a Tornado .
100
What is a big chunk of ice that moved across land many ages ago ?
What is Glacier
100
Is Greenland more green or white ?
What is white .
100
Name 2 things plates can do .
What is Pull Apart , Collide , and move past 1 another .
200
Name the 4 layers of earth ?
What is Crust , Inner/Outer Core , Mantle .
200
How is a mountain formed ?
What is when 2 plates collide , instead on one subducting they both go up and form a "mountain".
200
What is Subduction ?
What is the process that takes place at convergent boundaries by which one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate and sinks into the mantle as the plates converge.
200
What is the largest body of water ?
What is the Pacific Ocean .
200
What moves Tectonic Plates ?
What is Continental Currents .
300
What is the thickest layer , also what is the thinnest layer ?
What is Mantle = Thickest , Crust = Thinnest .
300
Where on Earth does most Volcanoes and Earthquakes happen ?
What is The Ring of Fire .
300
What is a Hot Spot ?
What is a place of potential unrest: an area where very hot liquids or trouble is likely to break out .
300
What was the name of the huge Supercondinent ?
What is Pangaea .
300
Plates float above the ....
What is Asthenosphere
400
What core is very hot liquids ?
What is Outer Core
400
What is the definition of an Earthquake ?
What is a shaking of the ground caused by the sudden breaking and movement of large sections (tectonic plates) of the earth's rocky outermost crust.
400
What is a Volcano ?
What is an opening in Earth's crust , a naturally occurring opening in the surface of the Earth through which molten, gaseous, and solid material is ejected , other known .. lava .
400
Name the 3 Boundary's .
What is Convergent , Divergent , Transform .
500
How thick is the Mantle ?
What is 2,900 Km .
500
What are the 3 types of Volcanoes ?
What is Shield , Cinder Cone , Composite .
500
What Scientist introduced Condinental Drift ?
Who is Alfred Wegener .
500
Hot Spots can also cause what type of activity ?
What is Volcanic .
500
What are 3 supporting reasons of Plate Tectonics ?
What is Climate , Fossils , Geology .