Chapter 7 Earth’s Structures

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

• Core

• Lithosphere

• Faults

• Earthquake

Built up energy that is released along a fault

• Faults

• Seismic waves

• Earthquake

• Core

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

• Plate tectonics

• Seismic waves

• Earthquake

• Core

The physical remains or traces of plants and animals

• Core

• Fossil

• Faults

• Earthquake

Intense vibrations felt throughout Earth’s crust during an earthquake

• Seismic waves

• Faults

• Earthquakes

• Magnitude

Crack in Earth’s crust along which volcanoes and earthquakes take place

• Lithosphere

• Magma

• Plate tectonics

• Faults

The innermost layer of the Earth

• Core

• Lava

• Magma

• Fault

Magma rising up through diverging boundaries on the ocean floor

• Dome mountains

• Fold mountains

• Mid-ocean ridges

• Epicenter

The energy of a earthquake as given by the richter scale

• Magnitude

• Epicenter

• Lava

• Magma

A scale used to measure earthquakes by size or magnitude

• Volcano

• Epicenter

• Richter Scale

• Magma