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Crusts of the Earth
Vocabulary
Boundaries
Earthquakes
Volcanoes and Extra Credit
100
What is the thinnest most outer layer of the earth?
What is the crust?
100
The process of being broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
Two or more plates moving AWAY form eachother
What is a divergent boundary?
100
The point inside earth where an earthquake begins is called the
What is focus?
100
Broad, slightly domed shaped volcanoes, *non-explosive eruptions
What is Shield Volcano?
200
What is beneath the crust that is rigid like the crust, but beneath is a layer of thick zone of hot, soft rock?
What is the mantle?
200
Movement of rock, caused by water, wind, or ice.
What is erosion?
200
Plates are moving PAST eachother
What is a transform fault boundary?
200
The point on earth's surface directly above the focus is called the
What is epicenter?
200
Steep sided, only erupt for a short period of time.
What is Cinder cone volcano?
300
What is beneath the mantle that is the inside the earth?
What is the core?
300
Dropping or settling of eroded material, usually called sediment.
What is deposition?
300
Two or plates move TOWARDS eachother.
What is a convergent boundary?
300
These waves are detected first and are the fastest
What is P Waves?
300
Erupt many times *explosive and non-explosive
What is Composite Volcanos?
400
What the layer that surrounds the inner core?
What is the outer core?
400
Immense ice sheets that flow slowly over the earth's surface.
What is a glacier?
400
Movements in plates that cause these
What is earthquakes?
400
These travel second and go through the ground.
What is S Wave?
400
This man created the Richter Scale. His name and what year did he make it?
Who is Charles Richter and what is 1935?
500
What soft layer of the mantle makes pieces of the lithosphere slowly float?
What is the astenophere?
500
The theory that the lithosphere is divided into plates that are always moving.
What is plate tectonics?
500
This can happen when a divergent boundary collides with a denser boundary and that boundary sinks under the continenetal boundary.
What is sea-floor spreading or mid-ocean ridge?
500
This happens when and earthquake occurs beneath the ocean.
What is a tsunami?