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Plates
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Vocabulary
Layers of the Earth
100
two plates moving together
What is convergent?
100
Formed by frequent lava eruptions
What is shield volcano?
100
An earth quake measuring 6.0
What is large earthquake?
100
the flow of lava or ash from an volcano
What is an eruption?
100
the thin outer layer of the earth
What is the crust?
200
Two plates moving apart
What is divergent?
200
Formed by a short release of ash and rock
What is cinder cone volcano?
200
Used to measure earthquakes
What is a seismograph?
200
The transfer of heat energy from the center of the earth to the surface of the earth
What is convection?
200
the layer of the earth made of a solid part and a soft rock zone
What is the mantle?
300
The San Andres Fault in California is this boundary
What is transforming?
300
Formed by both ash and lava eruptions
What is a composite volcano?
300
The scale used to measure earthquakes
What is the Richter Scale?
300
melted rock in the earth
What is magma?"
300
the core is divided into two layers
What is the inner and outer core?
400
When one layer goes under another layer
What is subduction?
400
The ring of fire is here
What is the pacific ocean?
400
The method used to find the epicenter of an earthquake
What is triangulation?
400
the theory that earths landmasses once were connected
What is continental drift?"
400
True or False Ocean convection currents are caused by plate movement
What is false?
500
A place where two plates meet
What is a boundary?
500
Magma rises to the surface through cracks
What are fissures?
500
The center of an earthquake in the earth?
What is the focus?
500
The super ocean once formed when all continents were together
What is panthalasis?
500
The BEST football team
What is the Minnesota Vikings?"