Earth's Moving Crust

What is hot, melted rock?

• Surface waves

• Magma

• Vent

• Epicenter

What is the solid, rocky surface containing the continents and the ocean floor?

• Earth's crust

• Layers of rock

• Cinder-cone volcano

• Hardened lava

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The point where an earthquake starts is called the _____________

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A vibration that spreads out away from a focus when an earthquake happens

• Seismic wave

• Epicenter

• Tidal wave

The idea that Earth's surface is broken into plates that move

• Crust

• Cracking

• Plate tectonics

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The amount of energy released by an earthquake

• Sonic boom

• Earthquake

• Seismograph

• Magnitude

Heat from below Earth's surface

• Geyser

• Geothermal energy

• Hot spring

• Earth's core

The formation of ridges and trenches in the ocean is explained by this theory

• Big bang theory

• Transform fault

• Epicenter

• Sea-floor spreading

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Earthquakes often occur at these boundaries

• Transform boundaries

• Epicenter

• Mid-Ocean Ridge

• Convection current

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Giant ocean waves formed by underwater earthquakes

• Tidal wave

• Hurricane

• Tsunami

• Seismic waves

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