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Earth's Layers
Earth's Layers-continued
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Mountains/Vocab
Volcanoes/Earthquakes
100
These things found in Yellowstone National Park tell us that our Earth is extremely hot inside.
What are geysers
100
The innermost of Earth's layers
What is the core?
100
The theory that explains that continents are moving across Earth's surface
What is the theory of continental drift?
100

Mountains that form when magma pushes up on Earth's crust but does not break through.

What is Dome Mountains.
100
the hot, molten rock that is found underground
What is magma?
200
The three states in which Yellowstone National Park is located.
What are Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana?
200
The part of the core that is solid and probably made up of iron and nickel
What is the inner core?
200
This is one reason we know that plates move
What are fossils?
200
a violent shaking of Earth's crust
What is an earthquake?
200

the point on the surface directly above the focus in an earthquake

What is the epicenter?

300
The uppermost layer of our Earth.
What is the crust?
300
The 2 regions of the core
What is the inner core and the outer core?
300
Name 2 kinds of plates.
What are oceanic plates and continental plates?
300
Mountains that form along fault lines where blocks of rock fall, are thrust up or slide.
What is fault-block mountains
300

cracks in Earth's crust

What is a fault?

400
The layer just below Earth's crust
What is the mantle?
400
The only layer that is in a liquid state - made mostly of molten iron and nickel
What is the outer core?
400
Where 2 plates move toward each other
What are converging boudaries?
400
The remains or traces of a plant or animal that lived long ago.
What is the fossil?
400

the underground point where the shaking is most violent

What is the focus?

500
The solid upper mantle and crust.
What is the lithosphere?
500
The 4 layers of our Earth
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
500
Where 2 plates move away from each other
What are diverging boundaries?
500
the shock waves of energy that are measured to tell us how strong an earthquake is
What are seismic waves?
500

the shock waves of energy that are measured to tell us how strong an earthquake is

What are seismic waves?