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Layers of the Earth
Plates and Boundaries
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
the inner core is made up of these two metals.
What is iron and nickel?
100
This boundary is two crustal plates moving towards each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
100
A crack in the Earth.
What is a fault?
100
this is a lava before it comes out of a chamber in a volcano.
What is magma?
200
this is the name of the solid metal sphere in the center of the earth.
What is the inner core?
200
This boundary is two crustal plates moving apart.
What is a divergent boundary?
200
The plate movement that causes some earthquakes.
What is techtonic plate movement?
200
this is the reason why it gets dark after a volcanic eruption
what is an eruption cloud ?
300
What is the temperature of the outer core.
What is 6,500 degrees?
300
This boundary creates very bad earthquakes, California is an example of this boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
300
The center of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
300
this causes debris (landslide).
What is volcanic bombs?
400
The only liquid layer in the Earth.
What is the outer core?
400
This is when oceanic crust slides underneath continental crust.
What is a subduction zone?
400
Waves that cause up and down movement in an earthquake.
What is primary waves?
400
when lava comes out of the volcano and comes down.
What is lava flow?
500
The depth of the mantle.
What is 1,800 miles?
500
This is when two OCEANIC plates separate and cause magma to fill in the space, making a raised nudge in the middle of the ocean.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
500
Waves that cause side to side movement in an earthquake.
What are secondary waves?
500
it turns to conduction when it gets hot
What is ground water?