8th Grade 1/20/22 Terms Test Review

The solid outer layer of the earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle

• Mesosphere

• Lithosphere

• Caldera

The soft layer of the mantle on which tectonic plates move

• Mesosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Fault

The strong lower part of the mantle

• Mesosphere

• Lithosphere

• Epicenter

A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid outermost part of the mantle

• Magma Chamber

• Tectonic Plate

• Epicenter

The boundary formed by the collision of the two lithospheric plates

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Convergent Boundary

The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other

• Convergent Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizonally

• Divergent Boundaty

• Convergent Boundary

• Transform Boundary

A large semicircular depression that forms when the magma chanber below a volcano partially empties and causes the ground above to sink

• Caldera

• Crater

• Uplift

A break in a body of a rock along which one block slides relative to another

• Fault

• Vent

• Hot Spot

The rising of regions of the Earth's crust to higher elevations

• Uplift

• Seismology

• Vent