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Earthquakes
Plate Boundaries
Volcanoes
Grammar
Earth Layers
100
The point in the Earth where an earthquake's faulting begins
What is the focus?
100
A plate boundary where the plates are moving away from each other
What is a divergent plate boundary?
100
A volcano that forms quickly and is made of ash
What is a cinder cone volcano?
100
To be complete, a sentence needs these two things
What are a verb and a noun?
100
The layer of the Earth just outside the inner core
What is the outer core?
200
The point on the surface of the Earth where an earthquake is felt
What is the epicenter?
200
The study of the movement of plates.
What is plate tectonics?
200
The name for a volcano located in the middle of a tectonic plate
What is a hot spot volcano?
200
To link two sentences together using a comma, you need one of these
What is a conjuction? (Also acceptable: but, and, or, yet, for, nor, so)
200
The tectonic plates float on top of this layer
What is the mantle?
300
The machine used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
300
The type of current that drives plate movement
What is a convection current?
300
A low, wide volcano that forms islands
What is a shield volcano?
300
A sentence lacking either a subject or a verb is called this
What is a fragment?
300
We live on this layer
What is the crust?
400
Name for the series of quakes felt after an earthquake.
What are aftershocks?
400
A plate boundary where one plate sub-ducts under the other one
What is a convergent plate boundary?
400
The name for the hole where lava exits the volcano
What is a crater?
400
This word refers to your ability to read. You want it...trust us.
What is literacy? (Also acceptable: reading comprehension)
400
This layer is as hot as the surface of the Sun
What is the inner core?
500
Name of the scale used to measure earthquake magnitude (not the machine)
What is the Richter Scale?
500
A plate boundary that is most likely to cause earthquakes
What is a transform plate boundary?
500
A volcano that is also known as a stratovolcano
What is a composite volcano?
500
These are used to define a noun as specific (THE book) or unspecific (A book)
What are articles?
500
The outer core is this state of matter
What is a liquid?