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layers of the earth
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
The crustal plate boundary
Vocabulary
100
how many layers is the earth made up of?
4
100
What are scientists called when they study earthquakes?
seismologists
100
The liquid that comes out of the volcano is called magma.
What is the liquid that comes out of a volcano?
100
convergent boundary
What is the boundary that occurs when two plates collide into each other?
100
What is a transform boundary?
The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally.
200
what are the four main layers of the earth?
the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core
200
What does a ritcher do?
It describes the amount of energy released by an earthquake
200
The temperature in a volcano is very hot.
What is the temperature of volcanoes?
200
divergent boundary
What is the boundary that makes valleys, rivers, and lakes?
200
What is a divergent boundary?
A divergent boundary when two plates move apart from each other.
300
what are the two most common metals found in the inner core and outer core?
iron and nickel
300
What do seismic waves do?
Seismic waves travel through the ground
300
The effect is death, people cannot survive touching lava or magama
What is the effect when people touch lava?
300
transform boundary
which type of boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other in opposite directions?
300
what is a convergent boundary?
A convergent boundary is when two plates collide
400
What layer of the earth is metal and reaches high temperatures that get squeezed together and vibrate as a solid?
Inner core
400
What happens when a earthquake occurs?
Energy is released by the earthquake which causes seismic waves that is also called a "Tsunami"
400
The difference about the sun & the volcano is that the volcano is hooter than the sun
What is the difference of the sun and the volcano?
400
plate techtonic`s move and change shape.
what do plate techtonic`s do?
400
What is magma?
A lava substance that is stored in the volcano
500
which layer of the earth is a soft layer of the mantle, witch pieces of the lithosphere slowly float?
Asthenosphere
500
What is pumice?
It's a rock underground near the magma chamber that floats in water