History and legends
Dionasio Pulado discover a volcano in his farm field in this country.
What is Mexico?
This layer is one of two solid layers of the earth, temperatures here can reach up to 10,000o F.
What is the inner core?
An earthquake that takes place in the ocean could cause this type of extremely large wave.
Compaction of sediments forms this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
Neptunism, an incorrect theory about the origin of rocks, gets is name from Neptune the Roman god of this.
What is the sea?
This bubble of gasses surrounds our planet, making life possible.
What is the atmosphere?
Converging tectonic plates is one way to create this type of landmass.
What are mountains?
Volcanic activity forms this type of rock.
What is igneous?
Volcanoes are said to be named after this Roman god.
Who is Vulcan?
The thinnest layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
Islands, like the Hawaiian islands, can be created by this spectacular force of nature.
What are volcanoes?
Any rock can be transformed into this type of rock with enough pressure and heat.
What is metamorphic?
Dr. Inge Lehmann used this seismic event to discover that the earth had a solid inner core.
What is an earthquake?
These two layers make up more than 70% of the earth's mass.
What are the upper and lower mantle?
The highest and lowest points of the earth's crust.
What are Mount Everest and the Mariana trench?
His theory of uniformitarianism shaped much of modern geologic thinking.
Who is James Hutton?
This solid outer part of the Earth includes both the crust and the brittle upper portion of the mantle
What is the lithosphere?
These two types of igneous rock differ in the place where they cool off.
What are intrusive and extrusive?