Humans and other land animals use lungs to breathe, these are what underwater wild things use to breathe.
What is Gills
100
This is a mountain formed from unmelted snow and ice.
What is glacier.
100
The Earth's crust is made of parts, like a puzzle, these are the different sections that rub together and cause natural disasters.
What are tectonic plates.
100
This is the opening of the volcano where lava would exit.
What is the vent.
200
This is the small hot center of the Earth.
What is the inner core
200
This is a deep sunken crack found at the bottom of the ocean floor.
What is a trench.
200
These are large formations on the Earth's crust caused when two sections of Earth converge or push together.
What are mountains.
200
This is the name for the place where two plates come together. California sits on top of one and because of it there are several earthquakes in CA every year.
What is a fault.
200
This is what lava is before it hits air during an eruption.
What is magma.
300
This is the outer layer of the Earth where landforms can be found.
What is the crust.
300
This part of the ocean is made of thousands of ocean plants and makes an excellent home for many of the ocean's wild things. Nemo lives in one.
What is coral reef.
300
This is a landform caused by thousands of years of erosion from rivers. It is like a valley between mountains.
What is canyon.
300
This is the pinpoint start of an Earthquake along a fault line. It is where the most intense shaking occurs.
What is the epicenter.
300
This is the term used to explain the explosion of a volcano.
What is eruption.
400
This layer of the Earth is made of melted metals such as iron. Metals are all in liquid form here because it is so hot.
What is outer core.
400
This is the name given to the part of the ocean floor that suddenly drops off to a much deeper ocean.
What is continental shelf.
400
This is the layer of the Earth where most landform can be seen.
What is crust.
400
This is tool used to measure the magnitude of an Earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale
400
This is the famous volcano in North America that erupted in 1980 in Washington State.
What is Mt. St. Helen's
500
This is the thickness of the crust.
What is 25 miles.
500
Some wild things in the deep ocean are blind. They do not need to see because it is pitch black at the bottom. It is dark because this cannot reach the bottom.
What is sunlight.
500
This famous mountain was discussed in class. It is in the Himalayan mountain range in Nepal. It is the tallest mountain on Earth.
What is Mt. Everest.
500
The difference between earthquake magnitude is extreme. On the Richter Scale an earthquake that receives a rating of an 8 would require you to multiply the effects of an earthquake rated 1 x this many 10s.
What is 7. 1 x10 x10 x10 x10 x10 x10 x10
500
There are three different kinds of volcanoes. This volcano is the only one that is quiet...be careful you may not hear it erupt!