Mostly made of iron and nickel, makes up 1/3 of the Earth's mass
What is the core?
100
Earthquakes that occur under the ocean can cause this.
What is a tsunami?
100
When a magma chamber below a volcano empties, the roof of the magma chamber may collapse and leave a large basin-shaped depression
What is caldera?
100
The three types of stress that causes faults to form.
What are shear stress, tension, and compression?
100
The 3 types of plate boundaries
What are convergent, divergent, and transform?
200
The large landmass that the continents were formed from.
What is Pangaea?
200
Where the earthquake starts and is located in the Earth.
What is the focus?
200
Name the three types of volcanoes.
What are shield, cinder, and composite?
200
Name the three types of mountains that can form.
What are folded, volcanic, and fault-block?
200
When two plate move past each other horizontally
What is transform boundary?
300
The two types of crust
What are continental and oceanic?
300
The waves that cause the most damage during an earthquake, but are the last to be felt.
What are surface waves or L waves?
300
A volcanically active area of Earth's surface, commonly far from a tectonic plate. A location where a column of extremely hot mantle rock rises through the asthenosphere.
What is a hot spot?
300
Cooler rock sinks and warmer rock rises during this
What is convection?
300
Numerous explosive volcanoes that form on convergent plate boundaries surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
What is The Ring of Fire?
400
Name the 5 physical layers of the Earth in order from inside to top.
What are inner core, outer core, mesosphere, asthenosphere, and lithosphere?
400
Name 3 types of waves that can result from an earthquake.
What are P waves, S waves, and Surface (L) waves?
400
Hot ash and bits of rocks that may be ejected into the atmosphere
What is pyroclastic material?
400
Folded mountains are usually formed when rock layers are squeezed together and pushed upward over one another at this type of plate boundary.
What is convergent?
400
When two plates move away from each other and allows the asthenosphere to rise toward the surface and partially melt
What is divergent boundary?
500
The _________________________ is divided into the tectonic plates.
What is lithosphere?
500
This measures the effects of an earthquake at the Earth's surface?
What is intensity?
500
The resistance of a liquid material to flow. Ex. lava
What is viscosity?
500
The return of rock to its original shape after elastic deformation
What is elastic rebound?
500
The tectonic plates move on top of the _____________________.