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The deepest layer inside the Earth is the:
Inner core
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Graph of seismic waves that helps seismologists study earthquakes
Seismogram
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Substance that flows out of volcanoes
What is lava
100
Theory that earth's lithosphere is divided into plates that move
What is plate tectonics
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The organelle that plants use to collect light and make sugars
Chloroplasts
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Pieces of the lithosphere that move around on top of the earth:
Tectonic plates
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Type of boundary where blocks slide against one another causing an earthquake
What is a transform boundary?
200
Hot soft rock material; the driving force that creates volcanoes
What is magma
200
The boundary where the plates of the Earth's crust are pushed into each other
Convergent
200
The simplest cell; has a cell wall and no nucleus
What is a prokaryotic cell?
300
The theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have done so in the past
Continental Drift
300
A scientist who studies rocks and learns about how the Earth is made up
What is a geologist
300
An opening in a volcano
What is a vent
300
The force that drives plate tectonics
convection currents in the mantle
300
The number of protons are in a neutral carbon atom that has 12 electrons?
What is 12?
400
The outermost physical rigid layer of the Earth
Lithosphere
400
The two types of waves that help locate an earthquake
p and s waves
400
A wide, gently sloping cone formed from flowing lava
What is a shield volcano
400
What is formed when a continental plate collides with a oceanic plate
What are volcanic mountains
400
Your genes are contained in these bundles of DNA
What are chromosomes?
500
All the gases around the Earth are called the:
atmosphere
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The point on the Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point
What is the epicenter
500
Numerous volcanoes lying directly on tectonic plate boundaries in the Pacific Ocean form this
What is the Ring of Fire
500
The three types of tectonic plate boundaries
What are convergent, divergent, & transform
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The genotype Bb what color of eyes: blue eyes (recessive) or brown eyes (dominant).
Brown eyes