Earthquakes
The strength of an earthquake is measured by this.
What is the Richter scale?
This comes out of the vent of the volcano.
What is lava?
Why do we differentiate between the outer and inner core?
Because the outer is liquid and the inner is solid.
I use capital letters and punctuation when writing these.
What are complete sentences?
Earthquakes occur most frequently around the Pacific Ocean area because of this.
What are plate boundaries?
This sits in the mantle and comes up through the cracks in the crust.
What is magma?
This layer surrounds the Earth on which we live.
What is the crust?
C.E.R stands for this.
What is claim, evidence, and reasoning?
Earthquakes occur here because plate boundaries...
When plates slide past each other or collide into each other.
This type of volcano has hot lava that flows out of the vent like a river.
What is a shield volcano?
The lithosphere is broken into sections called _________.
What is tectonic plates?
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What is a paragraph?
Mid ocean ridges and sea floor spreading are a result of this plate boundary. Volcanoes can also occur because of this plate boundary.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
California frequently has earthquakes because there is a large _______________ that extends roughly 800 miles through the entire state.
What is a fault?
This part of the world, surrounding the pacific, has the highest number of active volcanoes.
What is the ring of fire?
The mantle is made up of this.
What is magma and solid rock?
I can use observations from my labs and text books to find this.
What is evidence?
Mountains were most likely formed by this plate boundary.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
Why are scientists trying to predict earthquakes?
Scientists can be notified of an earthquake.
They can tell people if they need to evacuate.
They can predict volcanic eruptions.
The place with the most volcanic activity in the solar system.
What is IO, Jupiter's moon?
Scientists think that _____________ is made of liquid, which moves to produce Earth’s magnetic field.
What is the outer core?
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