Vocabulary
a flow of rock, soil, and other earth materials down a slope
What is landslide
natural event that may negatively affect people and the environment
What is natural hazard
When plate boundaries move apart
What is divergent
name of super continent millions of years ago
What is Pangea
These are underwater volcanic chains
What are mid ocean ridges
when magma flows to earth’s surface
What is lava
sudden release of energy in earth’s interior which can cause shaking on the surface
What is earthquake
when plate boundaries move towards each other
What is convergent
what is ring of fire
What layer of the Earth is the hottest
What is the inner core
hot liquid rock under earth’s surface
What is magma
his forms when magma or lava cools and solidifies (like in Hawaii)
What is igneous rock
plate boundary that moves past each other
What is a transform
this is where tectonic plates are located
What is the lithosphere
strength of an earthquake
What is magnitude
solid layer of Earth’s crust and upper mantle
What is lithosphere
geological process When one plate goes underneath another
What is subduction
This is the only plate boundary that does not have volcanoes or mountains
What is transform
name of three types of plate boundaries
divergent, transform, convergent
deep narrow depression on the sea floor
what is a trench
This kind of rock has layers of hardened sediments that become rocks
What is sedimentary
rock layer that allows groundwater to flow through it
What is aquifer
What are 4 layers of the Earth
What is crust, mantle, inner and outer core
This is the correct order of the layers of Earth
What is Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
Parts that make up the lithosphere
What is the crust and the mantle