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Plate Tectonics
Layers of the Earth
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Vocabulary
100
The earth used to be one large land mass known by this name.
What is Panaega?
100
We live on this layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
100
The word volcano comes from this Roman god.
What is Vulcan - the god of fire?
100
The large crack in the earth that is caused by an earthquake.
What is a fault line?
100
This is a large wave caused by undersea earthquakes.
What is a Tsunami?
200
This scientist developed a theory about the one large land mass breaking up into different continents.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
This layer of the earth is solid rock.
What is the inner core?
200
This volcano will never erupt again.
What is an extinct volcano?
200
This instrument measures how strong the earthquake was.
What is the Richter Scale?
200
This is the liquid rock that erupts out of the top of the volcano.
What is lava?
300
When 2 plates move towards each other they can create these.
What are mountains?
300
This layer is the where there is liquid rock called magma.
What is the mantle?
300
This volcano looks like a weapon that a warrior would carry.
What is a shield volcano?
300
This is the area directly above where the earthquake happens.
What is the epicenter?
300
This scientist studies volcanoes.
What is a volcanologist?
400
When 2 plates move up and down sliding against each other they can cause this to happen.
What is an earthquake?
400
The inner and outer layers of the earth are made of these 2 metals.
What are iron and nickel?
400
This volcano will be sleeping but then can erupt again.
What is a dormant volcano?
400
The area in the Pacific Ocean where many volcanic eruptions occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
This liquid rock is found in the mantle of the earth.
What is magma?
500
This is the name given to plates that move apart from each other causing volcanic eruptions.
What are divergent plates?
500
Name the main 4 layers of the earth.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
500
Name the 3 types of volcanoes.
What are the cinder cone, shield, and composite volcanoes?
500
The instrument that measures the vibrations of earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
500
This state has a famous fault line called the San Andreas Fault.
What is California?