Earth's layers
This is the outermost layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
This is the main cause of floods.
What is Heavy rainfall?
A giant ocean wave caused by an earthquake under the sea.
What is a tsunami?
True/false: All volcanoes are found on land.
What is false?
This continent has very few volcanoes.
What is Africa?
This is the hottest layer.
What is the core?
This is one way communities can prepare for floods.
What is early warning systems? What is building barriers? What is evacuation plans?
The scale used to measure earthquake magnitude.
What is the Richter scale?
Molten rock before it reaches the surface.
What is magma?
The country where the 2011 earthquake and tsunami happened.
What is Japan?
What is the mantle?
This South African province experience severe floods in 2022?
What is Kwa-zulu Natal?
This famous fault line in California is known for producing large earthquakes.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
This is one positive effect of volcanic eruptions.
What is fertile soil? What is geothermal energy? What is tourism?
This natural disaster destroyed much of New Orleans in 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This causes tectonic plates to move.
What is convection currents in the mantle?
Flooding caused by seawater pushed inland during storms.
What is a storm surge?
This instrument measures earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
This is the area with many volcanoes in the pacific ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
This volcano erupted in 79 AD, burying the Roman city of Pompeii under ash.
What is Mount Vesuvius?