Structure of the Earth
I am the thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
This is a super continent.
What is pangaea?
Where plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
I am to the North of the Caribbean Plate.
What is the North American Plate?
The source of the earthquake.
What is the focus?
This layer is mostly liquid.
What is the outer core?
This is where two plates meet.
What is a plate boundary.
This is the deepest part of the ocean.
What is the Mariana Trench?
This is to the South-west of the Caribbean Plate.
What is the Nazca Plate?
Used to use the Richter Scale to measure this.
What is the magnitude of an earthquake?
I am made up of sial.
What is the continental crust?
I move in a circular motion on the mantle.
What are convection currents?
Another name for a transform boundary.
What is a conservative boundary?
I am to the east of the Caribbean Plate.
What is the South American Plate?
Measures the damage and impact.
What is the intensity of an earthquake?
I get as hot as 5,400 degrees Celsius.
What is the inner core?
They are minor and there are only three.
What is the Cocos, Nazca and Caribbean plates?
Divergent boundaries cause this mountain range in the ocean.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
The Puerto Rico trench is a part of this zone.
What is zone 1?
Located directly above the focus.
What is the epicentre?
I am made up of tectonic plates.
What is the lithosphere?
This tells that animals traveled to different countries.
What are fossils?
The zone that created the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc.
What is a subduction zone?
This is a major plate boundary in the Southern Caribbean.
What is a transform boundary?
Can cause rocks to slip or break suddenly causing earthquakes.
What is stress?