Layers Of The Earth Plate Tectonics Vocabulary More Vocabulary Volcanoes
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What is the Crust?
What is the outermost layer of the earth called?
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What is Pangea?
When all of the continents were connected into one "Super-continent"
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What is a plate?
Gigantic slabs of rock that make up the Earth's crust.
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What is mass movement?
The downhill shifting of rock and soil because of gravity
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What are the 3 types of volcanoes?
A shield, cinder-cone, and composite.
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What is a solid ball of very hot iron?
The material you will find at the very center of the earth.
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What is a convergent boundary?
The boundary when two plates come together or collide.
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What is a fault?
A break or crack where two plates meet.
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What is a sinkhole?
A large hole formed when ground caves in because of weak or dissolving rocks
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What is the "Ring of Fire"?
Volcanoes that form around the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
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What is the mantle?
The layer of the earth under the crust that is described as thick "road tar" is called the:
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What is a transform boundary?
The boundary when two plates slide past each other.
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What is a volcano?
A mountain that builds up around an opening in Earth's crust.
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What is a delta?
New land where sediment is dropped at the mouth of a river
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What is a hot spot?
When volcanoes form in the middle of a tectonic plate.
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What is the outer core?
This layer of the earth is just beneath the mantle and is known as the:
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What is a convergent boundary?
The boundary between the Eurasian and Indian Plates.
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What is a mid-ocean ridge?
The underwater mountain range that goes all the way around the earth.
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What is a glacier?
Thick sheet of ice that causes erosion as it slides down hill
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What are the 3 types of volcanoes?
Dormant, active and extinct.
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What is the lithosphere?
This layer of the earth is the bottom of the crust and top of the upper mantle
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What is a divergent boundary?
The boundary between the Arabian and African Plates.
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What are constructive forces?
This creates new landforms.
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What is a sediment?
Rock fragments that have been transported to a different location.
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What is shield volcano?
Wide, low mountain with quiet eruptions.






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