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Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Landforms
Space
100
The sudden slip on a fault resulting in ground shaking
What is an earthquake?
100
the innermost part of the earth.
What is the core?
100
An area around the Pacific ring which has many active volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
100
A body of water surrounded by land
What is a lake?
100
The only planet that humans have ever walked on
What is earth?
200
A fracture along which the blocks of crust on either side have moved relative to one another parallel to the fracture.
What is a fault?
200
the outmost layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
200
Hot liquid that exists deep within earth.
What is Magma?
200
The highest peak in the United States
What is Mount McKinley?
200
The Red Planet
What is Mars
300
A column-like vortex of rapidly-rotating air in contact with the ground.
What is a tornado?
300
This is between the crust and core.
What is the mantle?
300
The hot molten rock that comes out of a Volcano
What is lava?
300
This covers 75% of Earth
What is an ocean?
300
A group of stars that look like a picture
What are constellations?
400
a tornado that passes over water
What is a waterspout?
400
This scale measures earthquake size.
What is the Richter Scale?
400
The bowl shaped part at the top of a volcano.
What is a crater?
400
Low land between hills and mountains
What is a valley?
400
The number of days it takes the earth to revolve around the sun
What is 365?
500
Wind, erosion, and soil deposits create these.
What are landforms?
500
divergent, convergent, transform
What are plate boundaries?
500
Volcanoes can cause this natural disaster.
What is an earthquake?
500
A swamp located in southern Georgia
What is the Okefenokee Swamp?
500
The largest planet in the Solar System
What is Jupiter?