LAYERS OF THE EARTH
PLATES AND BOUNDARIES
EARTHQUAKES
VOLCANOES
100
This is the outermost layer of the earth
What is the crust?
100
This the boundary that occurs when two plates are pushing towards each other
What is convergent?
100
These waves cause the ground to move from side to side
What is secondary waves?
100
When two plates push toward each other, this can be formed
What is a mountain?
200
This is the only liquid layer of the earth
What is the outer core?
200
This is the boundary that occurs when tectonic plates are moving away from each other
What is divergent?
200
Movement happens right along here
What is the fault line?
200
This is what magma turns into when it comes out of the volcano
What is lava?
300
These are all of the layers of the earth named from the center out
What are the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust?
300
This is the boundary that occurs when tectonic plates are not moving directly towards each other or away from
What is transform?
300
These are the fastest traveling waves and they cause up and down movement
What is primary waves?
300
This is the ocean that the ring of fire circles
What is the Pacific Ocean?
400
This is both the outermost layer of the mantle and the crust
What is the lithosphere?
400
This is two continental plates that diverge then becomes a valley like ____
What is a rift?
400
This is the place where the earthquakes starts
What is the epicenter?
400
This is how volcanoes cause tsunamis
What is a landslide?
500
This is the layer of the earth that is 1800 miles deep
What is the mantle?
500
This is a crack or fracture in earths crust that is associated with this movement
What is a fault?
500
Earthquake energy moves radially outwards at this place below the fault.
What is the focus?
500
This is another word for mud or debris flow
What is lahar?