Question | Answer |
What is the shaking of the Earth's crust? | Earthquake |
What is the deepest layer of the Earth? | Core |
What is the thickest layer, made of solid and melted rock? | Mantle |
What is the point on Earth's surface right above the focus of an earthquake? | Epicenter |
What is the layer of Earth that includes land and the ocean floor? | Crust |
What are the continent-sized slabs that make up the crust and the upper mantle? | Plates |
What is a break in the Earth's crust along which rocks move? | Fault |
What is the instrument that records earthquake waves? | Seismograph |
What is the underground point where an earthquake first starts? | Focus |
What is the Earth's hottest layer? | Inner core |
On which layer do the plates move very slowly across Earth's surface? | Melted mantle |
Name three ways that scientists can measure earthquakes. | Richter Scale, Mercalli Scale & Seismograph |
What state has a large fault running through it? | California |
Some volcanoes can form new ________________. | Ocean floor |
Volcanic mountains are formed by different types of _________________. | Eruptions |
What is the outermost layer of the Earth? | Crust |
What is the tube in a volcano that carries hot metlted rock to the surface? | Vent |
What is the melted rock that reaches the Earth's surface? | Lava |
What are the three layers of the Earth | Crust, mantle, and Core |
What metals are the core made of up of? | Iron and nickel |
How many ways can plates move? | 3 |
What forms when plates collide or run into each other? | Mountains or volcanoes |
What can occur when plates slide past each other? | Earthquake |
What is the name of the fault that runs through California? | San Andreas Fault |
What are the different types of volcanoes? | Shield, Cinder-Cone, and Composite |
What type of lava does a shield volcano produce? | Runny |
What state is Crater Lake in? | Oregon |
How was Crater Lake formed? | The top of a volcano fell in on itself. |