This layer is the thinnest layer, and has the lithosphere and hydrosphere.
What is the Crust.
100
This type of volcano is shaped like a bowl or a shield in the center, with long gentle slopes.
What is a Shield volcano.
100
We use this device to measure the strength of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
100
A plate boundary that can create earthquakes and build mountains is called?
What is a convergent boundary?
100
Pangea existed _________million years ago.
What is 300 million?
200
This layer is a solid ball which is made up of certain minerals. What are they?
What is nickle and iron.
200
This volcano is a steep-sided volcano composed of many layers of volcanic rock.
What is a composite volcano?
200
The __________(2 words) describes the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
200
What do we call it when a plate tectonic goes under the other?
What is a subduction zone?
200
What do we call the molten rock still inside the volcano?
What is magma?
300
This layers is the largest layer of the Earth, with 84% of the Earth's volume.
What is the mantle.
300
This volcano is a Circular/oval cone made up of small fragments of lava from a single vent that have been blown into the air, cooled and fallen around the vent.
What is cinder cone volcano?
300
The hypocenter describes what?
The point under the earth where the Earthquake begins.
300
This plate boundary creates new land.
What is a divergent boundary?
300
The three stages of volcanoes are?
What is active, dormant, and extinct.
400
This layer, which has a strong magnetic field, has what consistency? (liquid, gas or solid)
What is liquid
400
A volcano that has not erupted for many years, although there is still some activity deep inside is called?
What is a dormant volcano?
400
This after effect of an earthquake, can cause total destruction, miles away from the hypocenter. It usually occurs on coastlines.
What is a tsunami?
400
Give three types of evidence of continental drift/pangea.
What are fossils, geological formations and how the continents fit together like a puzzle.
400
The locations from which lava is erupted from volcanoes is called this.
What are vents?
500
The hydrosphere is another name for what?
What is the oceanic crust?
500
The area where we find the most volcanoes on Earth is called?
What is the pacific ring of fire?
500
The energy created by the earthquake travels from the epicenter, where they are the strongest, and is strong enough to destroy many buildings, etc. This energy is called?
What are seismic waves?
500
When two plates slip past each other, this is boundary is called?
What is a transform boundary?
500
An area of stress in the earth where broken rocks slide past each other, causing a crack in the Earth's surface is called this.