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Layers of the Earth
Plates and Boundaries
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
What is the layer below the lithosphere.
What is the mantle?
100
When 2 plates are pushing away each other.
What is the divergent boundary?
100
Where the ground shakes because of tectonic plates.
What is an earthquake?
100
It is what comes out of a volcano eruption
What is lava
200
the hottest layer of the earth
What is the inner core
200
When 2 plates are pushing towards each other
What is the convergent boundary?
200
This crack in the ground could start an earthquake.
What is a fault?
200
this substance is held in a chamber under the volcano
What is magma
300
what is the upper part of the planet
What is the crust
300
This boundary makes 2 plates that are sliding past each other.
What is transform boundary?
300
These are waves that travel fastest and cause an up and down movement.
What is a primary wave?
300
when a substance erupts from the volcano and flows down it
What is lava flow
400
the only liquid layer of the earth
What is the outer core
400
This is where most geological events occur.
What is the boundary's between tectonic plates?
400
These are the waves that move the ground from side to side.
What is a secondary wave?
400
a cloud that comes out of a eruption and can make day turn into night
What is eruption cloud
500
the semi liquid semi solid layer of the earth
What is the mantle
500
When two continental plates diverge this occurs.
What is a rift?
500
This is an earthquake where a dense plate shifts below its neighboring plate.
What is a subduction earthquake?
500
this volcano can spew forth lava heating the surrounding water quickly to make an tsunami
What is a submarine volcano