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Earth's Layers
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Mountains
Plate Tectonics
100
Mantle, Core, and Crust
What are the Earth's Layers?
100
Place where gas, ash, or melted rock come out of the ground.
What is a volcano?
100
Ground movement that occurs when blocks of rock in the Earth move.
What is an earthquake?
100
Synclines and Anticlines
What are the two kinds of folds?
100
The landmass when the continents were joined.
What is Pangea?
200
In the middle of the Earth
Where is the core?
200
Viscosity
What determines a substance's resistance to flowing?
200
Tectonic Plate Boundaries?
Where do most Earthquakes occur?
200
Strike-Slip, Normal, and Reverse
What are the three types of faults?
200
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform
What are the different plate boundaries?
300
On the crust
Where do we live?
300
Cladera
What is one example of a volcanic landform?
300
Directly above the focus on Earth's surface
What is the epicenter?
300
Compression
What stress is associated with reverse faults?
300
Mantle convection, slab pull, and ridge push
What causes tectonic plates to move?
400
Lithosphere
Where are the tectonic plates?
400
hot ash or bits of rock that are ejected into the atmosphere
What are pyroclastic materials?
400
Place within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an Earthquake occurs.
What is the focus?
400
Tension
What stress is associated with normal faults?
400
The explanation of age and magnetic patterns of seafloor rock.
What is seafloor spreading?
500
Strong, lower part of the mantle
What is the mesosphere?
500
Shield, Cinder Cone, and Composite
What are the the types of volcanoes
500
Because the ocean is very deep and the energy spreads out.
Why can't you see a tsunami from far away?
500
Melted rock erupts onto land
How do volcanic mountains form?
500
The magma comes through mid-ocean ridges and creates ocean trenches.
What happens during seafloor spreading?