Earths Layers
Tectonic Plates and Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Minerals and Rocks
Soil
100
What is the outer most layer of the earth
What is the Crust
100
What waves do earthquakes give off
What is Sesmic Waves
100
Where are active Volcanoes mostly found
What is along plate boundaries
100
This is a naturally occuring solid, that are made of elements
What is a mineral
100
This is the top layer of the earth.
What is soil
200
Name the 4 Layers of the Earth
What is Crust, the Mantle, Outer core, and Inner Core
200
This type of sesmic wave comes first.
What is Primary Wave
200
Name the 3 types of Volcanoes
What are Strato Volcanoes,Cinder Cone, and Shield
200
Name the 5 properties tested on rock to classify it.
What is fracture,luster,color,hardness,and specific gravity.
200
This layer of soil contains living organisms and decaying organic material. This is usually the darkest layer
What is Horizon O
300
How does heat normally move
What is in heat waves
300
What is Pangea?
What is all the continents in one landmass
300
This is the place where magma is held before a volcano erupts
What is magma chamber
300
This type of rock is made of particles of sand, shells,pebbles,and minerals
What is Sedimentary
300
What is soil comosed of?
What is silt,clay,rock particles, water, organisms, dirt
400
What is the theory that states the continents were once "Pangea" and moved
What is Sea floor Spearding
400
What type of heat occurs in the Mantleof the Earth?
What is Convection
400
When a volcano erupts it creates this cloud
What is Ash Cloud
400
This type of rock is formed when molten rock cools and hardens. Lava cools very quickly and no crystals form, but it is shiny. Sometimes air gets trapped and forms air bubbles
What is Igneous
400
This layer is also called "regolith"
What is Horizion C
500
What are the 3 boundary types?
What is Divergent, Convergent, Transform
500
This type of plate boundary is when 2 plates move back and forth in opposite directions cuasing an Earthquake
What is Tranform boundary
500
A quiet Volcano has this level of viscosity.
What is low vicosity
500
Name the 3 types of rock
What is Sedimentary, Igneous, and Metamorphic
500
This layer is also called "subsoil"
What is Horizon B