Volcanos
Layers of Earth
Vocabulary
Rock/rock cycle
Earthquakes
100
Melted rock that flows out of volcanoes
What is Lava
100
Layer of the Earth that is made of solid nickel and iron.
What is Inner core
100
What is the difference of magma and lava?
Magma is melted rock inside the earth and lava is melted rock from a volcano.
100
Name the 3 different types of rocks
What are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks.
100
Where do earthquakes occur?
On a fault line
200
Three main types of volcanoes
What are dormant, active, exinct
200
The outer core in thought to be responsible for Earth's __________ field.
What is Magnetic
200
The point below the surface where the rock breaks and energy is released. (This is where the earthquake occurred.)
What is focus
200
How do you go from a metamorphic rock to an igneous rock.
Melting a metamorphic rock into magma then letting it solidify into an igneous.
200
The shaking results when rocks move inside earth, caused by stress along the fault. The stress increases until rocks break and releases stored energy.
What is an Earthquake
300
Deep in the Earth heat and pressure cause rock to melt and form magma.
What is volcano formation
300
The names of the layers from top to bottom
What are crust, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core, inner core
300
The process of getting data from three different seismic stations to find where the earthquake occurred.
Triangulation
300
The most famous rock?
Who is Dwanye (the rock) Johnson
300
What waves come first?
Primary waves
400
Water vapor, amount of trapped gasses, and magma composition.
what are 3 factors that control the style of eruption
400
What is the average thickness of the continental crust
25 miles thick
400
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
MARY POPPINS!!!
400
How do you go from igneous to sedimentary.
An igneous rock gets weathered and eroded into sediments then the sediments are deposited and compacted into sedimentary rocks.
400
Can other natural disasters spark from earthquakes.
Yes:
Tsunami, Volcanoes, Mudslides
500
How do the types of volcanic eruptions differ?
Active: Errupting constanly
Dormant: have become inactive but may erupt in the future
Exinct: have not erupted within recorded history
500
The difference between Lithosphere and Asthenosphere
The Lithosphere contains Continental crust and oceanic crust.
Athenosphere can move like liquid at an average of 100 miles thick.
500
Ductile
How soft a rock is
500
What type of rock is fluorite
Igneous rock
500
What is the rarest type of earthquake?
tsunami earthquake