Show:
Layers of the Earth
Earthquakes
Mountains and Volcanoes
Fossils
Conservation and Energy
100
This is the earth's outermost layer.
What is the core?
100
The crust of the earth is made out of these large pieces of rock?
What are tectonic plates?
100
This type of mountain occurs when layers of the earth fold on each other.
What are folded mountains?
100
This is the hole left in the ground after a fossil disappears.
What is a mold?
100
This is the reusing of a product in a different way.
What is recycling?
200
The center of the earth is made of these two layers.
What is the inner and outer cores?
200
When plates collide, they can create this event felt from miles away.
What is an earthquake?
200
This massive mountain range is an example of folded mountains and still experiences earthquakes today.
What are the Himalayas?
200
This is another name for a fossil made out of minerals.
What is a cast.
200
This type of energy produces the least amount of pollution.
What is geothermal energy?
300
This is what the mantle of the earth is made out of.
What is melted rock?
300
Earthquakes occur along these breaks in the lithosphere.
What are faults?
300
These are the three types of volcanoes.
What are shield, cinder, and composite volcanoes?
300
This can be found in trees and can capture and preserve animals and plants from long ago.
What is amber?
400
The core is solid because of these two processes.
What is extreme heat and pressure?
400
This the point of the earth's surface that first moves.
What is the focus?
400
Mountains are worn down by these two processes.
What are weathering and erosion?
400
These type of fossils help scientists age other fossils and rocks close to them.
What are index fossils?
400
This device produces electricity in all power plants.
What is a generator?
500
It is because of this process that hot magma rises and cool magma sinks.
What is convection?
500
This is the process which tectonic plates collide and one plate sinks beneath another.
What is subduction?
500
Volcanoes erupt violently because of high amounts or trapped gases and high amounts of this.
What are rocks (or silica)?
500
Who created the world in six days?
Who/what is God?
500
These rods help stop the process of nuclear fission and prevent it from getting out of hand.
What are control rods?