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Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Changing Surface
Volcanoes
Misc.
100
An underground holding pool for hot magma is called a...
magma chamber
100
Melted rock that flows out onto Earth's surface is...
Lava
100
Grab a pin and quickly draw a divergent boundary on the board
<--I--->
100
Most volcanoes are cause by this action of a more dense oceanic plate sliding underneath a continental plate.
What is subduction?
100
Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into several...
plates
200
A force that wears down features on the Earth's crust
Destructive forces
200
If you somehow dug down to Earth's center, the first two layers you would pass through are the...
crust and mantle
200
QUICK. Draw a convergent boundary
--->I<---
200
Sea floor spreading is cause by which type of plate boundary?
What is divergent zone?
200
Most volcanoes are form by this type of plate boundary?
What is an convergent subduction zone
300
When a plate moves suddenly, the result is an.....
earthquake
300
Hot melted rock that is underground is called...
magma
300
The part of the Earth where magma forms is called the....
Mantle
300
Hawaii and Yellowstone are example of which type volcano producing zone?
What is a hot spot?
300
Molten rock below the Earth's surface
Magma
400
The layer on the surface of the Earth is called the....
crust
400
When all the continents were together they formed a super continent called......
Pangea
400
QUICK! Draw a transform boundary
Look on board
400
A moutain that forms from lava is a ...
volcano
400
An earthquake that happen underneath the ocean floor can cause one of these....
Tsunami
500
A very large land mass like North America is called a
Continent
500
A force that builds up features on the Earth's crust
Constructive force
500
This is large clouds of ash and hot gases released during an eruption. These travel very fast and killed the people of pompeii.
What is a pyroclastic flow
500
Name one of three places where a volcano is most likely to form.
where plates move toward each other, in the ocean where plates are moving away from each other or a Hot Spot.
500
The circular area of volcanoes and earthquakes the frequent the area around the pacific plate is called the.....
Ring of Fire