Unit C :Earth's Structure and Volcanoes

Layer of the Earth that includes land and the ocean floor

• mantle

• core

• crust

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Continent sized slabs that make up the crust and upper mantle

• core

• crust

• plates

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is the Earth's hottest and deepest layer?

• crust

• mantle

• core

Layer of the Earth that is made of solid and melted rock; and is the thickest

• crust

• mantle

• core

The 4 layers of the Earth are:

• core, crust, plates, mantle

• crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

• crust, core, lava, mantle

Shaking of the Earth's crust

• earthquake

• volcanic eruption

• fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Point on Earth's surface right about the focus of an earthquake

• fault

• epicenter

• focus

Break in the Earth's crust along which rocks move

• fault

• focus

• epicenter

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Instrument that records earthquake waves

• epicenter

• San Andreas fault

• seismograph

Underground point where an earthquake first starts

• focus

• fault

• epicenter