The Earth
This is the study of the earth.
What is geology?
This is a punctuation mark used to separate words or numbers in dates and addresses.
What is a comma?
This is melted rock in Earth's mantle.
What is magma?
This is a word that ends with -ly, which describes how a verb happens.
What is an adverb?
This is a geyser that erupts more than a dozen times a day.
What is Old Faithful?
This is the Earth's largest and thickest layer.
What is mantle?
This is a syllable placed at the end of a root word to change the meaning of a word.
What is a suffix?
This is one giant land mass before the plates separated. If combined they fit like a puzzle.
What is pangaea?
This is to write the information in your own words.
What is to paraphrase?
This is the largest active volcano.
What is Mauna Loa?
This is the outermost layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
This is a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
This when an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate.
What is subduction?
This is used to score writing samples.
What is rubric?
This year was known as "the year without a summer."
What is 1816?
These move apart, collide, and slide sideways past one another.
What are tectonic plates?
This is what describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
This is a surge of energy traveling out from an earthquake's source, or its focus.
What is a seismic wave?
This is used to show exactly what a person says or has said.
What are quotation marks?
This is the location North America's largest hotspot.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
This is a hill or mountain that forms over a crack in Earth's crust from which lava erupts.
What is a volcano?
This is a syllable at the front of a root word that changes meaning.
What is a prefix?
This is a gigantic wave of seawater caused by an earthquake in the oceanic crust.
What is a tsunami?
Spell the word that means a piece of writing that includes a few sentences focused on a certain subject.
What is p-a-r-a-g-r-a-p-h? (paragraph)
This is the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history.
What is the Tambora eruption?