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Earth's Layers
Magnetic Field
Tectonic Plates
Earthquakes
Vocab
100
What is the most thin layer of the Earth?
The Crust
100
What is the element in the outer core that causes the magnetic field?
Iron
100
What causes the tectonic plates to diverge?
Rifts
100
What type of plate movement causes the thinner plate to go under the other?
Subduction
100
What do volcanoes do?
Eruption
200
What is the layer that melts subducted tectonic plates?
The mantle
200
What does the magnetic field protect us from?
solar wind
200
What type of plate movement happens when two plates crash into each other?
Converge
200
What type of collision between plates cause natural disasters?
Converge
200
What causes continents to move?
Tectonic Plates
300
Which layer contains molten and has convenction currents?
Outer core
300
What does the magnetic field protect?
Atmosphere
300
What is the result of subduction?
An ocean floor
300
What type of plate movement causes two plates to split apart?
Diverge
300
What happens when magma breaks through the crust with force?
Volcano
400
Which layer is the most dense out of all layers?
Inner core
400
Which layer causes the magnetic field?
Outer core
400
What do rifts cause the tectonic plates to do?
Diverge
400
What causes diverging?
Rifts
400
What natural disaster causes horizontal and vertical movements of the earth?
Earthquakes
500
What causes natural disasters like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or tsunamis?
Convection currents
500
What object can detect direction according to the magnetic field?
Compass
500
What movement of the tectonic plates is when plates slide past each other?
Transform
500
What causes the plates to diverge, converge, and transform?
Convection currents
500
What visible trace is left after an earthquake?
Fault Line