Tiger Chapter 7 Vocabualry

Earth’s innermost structure

thin, nearly solid rock layer that is uppermost in Earth’s structure

area where Earth’s solid upper mantle and crust combine to form a shell 

thick layer of Earth’s structure just below Earth’s crust

idea that giant plates of rock are moving slowly across Earth’s surface

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violent shaking of Earth’s crust as built-up energy is released

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point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake

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crack in Earth’s crust along which movement takes place

point underground where the faulting in an earthquake occurs 

melted rock below Earth’s surface, called lava at the surface

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