Layers of Earth
What is the largest Earth layer?
What is mantle?
What event starts by lightning or a camper?
What is a wildfire?
Which type of seismic wave causes the most destruction to property?
What is a surface wave?
Which type of volcano is currently resting, but could erupt sometime in the future?
What is dormant?
In what type of rock do you find fossils?
What is sedimentary.
Which layer is made up of two different kind of layers: oceanic and continental?
What is crust.
What is an extensive amount of snow over a short period?
What is a blizzard?
Which seismic wave is the first to reach a seismic station?
What is the P-wave?
Which type of volcano if found in the Hawaiian Islands with thick flowing, slow moving lava? This is the most common type of volcano on earth.
What is shield?
Complete this statement: Fossils found in deeper layers of rock are ________ than fossils found in shallower layers of rock.
What is older.
Which layer has strong convection currents, which are responsible for the crust’s movement?
What is mantle.
What is a large wave created by an underwater earthquake?
What is a tsunami?
Which type of seismic wave can move through solid layers of the earth but not through the liquid outer core?
What is an S-wave?
Which type of volcano is built by alternating layers of lava flows and ash flows? It can be very explosive.
What is composite?
What are two types of fossils?
What is petrification, mold, cast, carbonization, fossil resin, tar, ice, and trace fossils.
Which layer of the Earth is responsible for the Earth’s magnetic field?
What is the outer core.
What event is a long period with no rain?
What is a drought?
The point within the earth where the earthquake originates.
What is the focus?
When lava cools and hardens, it forms which type of rock?
What is igneous?
How do fossils help us study the past?
What is they give us an idea of what fossils lived the past. We can use index fossils to date rock strata.
Which layer is plastic-like and allows the crust to flow over it?
What is the the asthenosphere
What event is a large storm associated with low pressure, forms over water?
What is a hurricane?
The scale, which is numbered 1-10, that measures the strength or magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
The weak point in the Earth’s crust where hot magma rises and reaches the earth’s surface is call the __________.
What is main vent?
What is the definition of a fossil?