Spheres of Earth
The outermost solid layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
Divided up parts of the lithosphere.
What are tectonic plates?
The bending of rock under stress.
What is folding?
All of the continents all connected.
What is Pangaea?
The first place on land where an earthquake hits.
What is the epicenter?
The center of Earth. It is made up mostly of nickel and iron.
What is the core?
Plate boundaries that move toward each other.
What are convergent boundaries?
Stress that pulls rock apart.
What is tension?
The ridge where seafloor spreading occurs.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
The first point where the earthquake occurs.
What is the focus?
The outermost rigid layer of Earth.
What is the lithosphere?
Plate boundaries that slide past each other.
What are transform boundaries?
Stress that pushes rock parallel.
What is shear stress?
The trench where convection occurs.
What are deep ocean trenches?
Ground movement.
What is an earthquake?
The layer of Earth between the core and the crust. (Based on chemical composition.)
What is the mantle?
Plate boundaries that spread away from each other.
What are divergent boundaries?
Stress that pushes rock together.
What is compression?
Cracks in Earth.
What are faults?
The result of an earthquake in a giant wave.
What is a tsunami?