Plate Tectonics Voc Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Shaking of the ground | earthquake |
| Strength of an earthquake | magnitude |
| The point on Earth’s surface directly above where an earthquake occurred | epicenter |
| A series of mountains connected by high ground | Mountain Range |
| How deep or far down into the earth an earthquake is occurring | Earthquake depth |
| Loose earth materials, such as sand, soil, and rocks; found on the surface of earth | sediment |
| Two things or events happening together or at the same time but not causing each other | correlation |
| A type of rock formed when layers of sediment are compressed by heavy layers of sediment above | Sedimentary rock |
| A large fracture all the way through the solid bedrock | Fault line |
| Plate material containing denser basalt rock that is usually found under the ocean | Oceanic crust |
| The reason something has happened or is happening | causation |
| Plate material containing less dense granite usually found underground on our continental land | Continental crust |
| Solid rock found everywhere on the earth, often under sediments, such as soil, sand, dirt and broken rocks | bedrock Oceanic crust |
| To cause damage or to destroy | deconstructive |
| Liquidy rock found below or within the Earth’s crust | magma |
| Breaking down of rock on Earth’s surface | weathering |
| To build up | constructive |
| Liquidy rock that flows out of a volcano and onto the earth’s surface | lava |
| Rising up of Earth’s surface | uplift |
| The moving around of weathered rock (sediment) | erosion |
| The section of the crust between an earthquake line | plate |
| Under the crust where it is hot and rock begins to melt, move and shift | mantle |
| The surface of the earth | crust |
| The laying down of sediment in a new location | deposition |
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