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Earth's Structure
Plate Tectonics
Space
Earthquake/Volcano
Miscellaneous
100
A thin layer of cool rock
What is CRUST
100
A once huge supercontinent that reached from pole to pole
What is PANGAEA
100
The astronomer that proposed that planets orbit the sun.
Who is Copernicus.
100
The instrument that scientists use to record seismic waves.
What is a seismograph.
100
The most day light in a single day.
What is the summer solstice.
200
Earth's crust and the very top layer of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere.
200
This states that the Earth's lithosphere is made up of huge plates that move over the surface of Earth.
What is THEORY OF TECTONIC PLATES
200
Chunks of ice orbiting the sun.
What are comets.
200
Volcanoes form here in the middle of a tectonic plate.
What is a hot spot
200
Instruments that are used to get a clearer view of distant objects.
What is a telescope.
300
The motion of hot, molten rock that rises, cools, and sinks.
What is a convection current.
300
This type of boundary occurs where two tectonic plates push together.
What is CONVERGENT BOUNDARY.
300
The description for how the planets, asteroids, and comets orbit.
What is elliptical.
300
Volcanoes occur here.
What is a plate boundary.
300
To give a predicted solution to the problem.
What is a hypothesis.
400
The liquid part of the earth.
What is the outer core.
400
Two types of crust that make up tectonic plates.
What are OCEANIC AND CONTINENTAL PLATES.
400
The two reasons that Earth has fewer impact craters than the Moon.
What are Earth's atmosphere burns up meteors, and weather erodes the craters.
400
A discharge of lava from an Earth vent.
What is a volcanic eruption.
400
When one plate sinks below another plate.
What is subduction.
500
A layer of hotter, softer rock that is part of the upper mantle.
What is asthenosphere.
500
The gap where the mid-ocean ridge widens and moten rock forms new crust.
What is a RIFT VALLEY.
500
This causes the constellations to look like they are moving in the night sky.
What is earth's rotation on its axis.
500
How rocks move.
What is the classification of faults.
500
Type of graph that is used to organize data that has percentages.
What is a circle graph.