VOLCANOES and MOUNTAINS
Tectonic Plates & More
ROCKS
EARTHQUAKES
WINTER FUN
100
What do we call magma once it reaches earth's surface?
Lava
100
What is created when tectonic plates collide or crash together?
Mountains
100
The building blocks of rocks (solid, nonliving material)
Minerals
100
Earthquakes can cause these giant waves
Tsunami
100
What winter movie has sisters names Anna and Elsa?
Frozen
200
What do we call a volcano that has erupted in the past 10,000 years and is likely to erupt again.
Active volcano
200
The name for the theory that earth's continents move over time
continental drift
200
This type of rock forms when magma cools.
Igneous rocks
200
A ______ is a fracture, or crack, in Earth’s crust
fault
200
This furry animal really loves his acorns in the movie Ice Age.
Scrat
300
What do we call hot springs that periodically erupt, like volcanoes of hot water?
Geysers
300
This layer of the earth is solid and made of very hot metal
inner core
300
This type of rock forms when sediments collect in low-lying areas both on land and in bodies of water. They form layers, one on top of another.
Sedimentary Rocks
300
What do we call the waves of energy traveling out from the earthquake’s source through the earth.
Seismic waves
300
I am white, round, and shaped like a ball.
But! I cannot bounce or else I'd fall
And that would be the end once and for all.
Snowball
400
A volcano that has not erupted in over 10,000 years
Extinct volcano
400
Earth’s largest and thickest layer and consists of very hot, very dense rock.
Mantle
400
A type of rock that forms when igneous or sedimentary rocks are exposed to extreme heat and pressure.
Metamorphic rocks
400
The ____________ is the point on Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s focus
epicenter
400
The number of sides on a snowflake.
6 sides
500
People told stories to help explain why unpredictable events like volcanoes occurred. What are these stories called?
Myths
500
The theory that millions of years ago, the Earth was one huge landmass or a supercontinent. What is this supercontinent called?
Pangaea
500
Movement of sediments from place to place is called ____________.
erosion
500
A tool used to measure an earthquakes magnitude or strength using numbers.
Richter scale
500
In the movie Happy Feet, Maurice the penguin does this type of dance.
Tap dancing