Which layer is best described as liquid iron and nickel?

Which type of crust is more dense

Which layer exists as a collection of tectonic plates?

The core is made up mostly of ______ and _______.

80% of the Earth's volume is made up of the _____.

The inner core is as hot as _________.

This layer has the highest pressure of all the layers.

A convection current is _______________.

What moves the melted rock material in the Mantle?

What was the name given to all the continents when they were joined as one super continent?

Describe the most likely relationship between these mountains and nearby tectonic plates.

Tectonic plates float on top of the ________

This is the theory that states that all the continents started as a single massive continent and have been MOVING apart for over 200 million years and the man that proposed it.

Alfred Wegener used __________ to prove that Pangea once existed ?

Scientists recently discovered that rocks collected from the Franklin Mountains in West Texas and rocks collected from mountains in eastern Antarctica were exactly the same age. Further research showed that the rocks were chemically and geologically the same and came from the same magma source. This discovery provides evidence of —

Earth's crust is broken up into several large rocky pieces called ...

This type of plate boundary is when two plates crash into each other.

This type of plate boundary is when two plates move apart.

When the oceanic and continental plates converge, the thinner and denser oceanic plate is forced to slide under much thicker continental plate. This process is called____?

What types of landscapes are featured near or with volcanoes?

What is letter A in the picture?

What is letter B in the picture?

Magma that reaches the surface is called?

The belt of volcanoes around the rim of the Pacific Ocean is called:

Shield volcanoes have:

When a volcano erupts, empties the magma chamber, and collapses the top leaving a huge hole.

Explosive eruption that hurls ash, gases, cinders, and bombs from the main vent.

Magma's resistance to flow, or how thick it is, is called?

The name of a volcano that erupted in Washington State in 1980.

These seismic waves can only travel through solids?

These seismic waves compress and expand the ground like an accordion

These seismic waves are slower and arrive last but causes severe damage

A sudden release of energy from plate movement creating shaking and trembling is known as

The built up movement of plates is released as energy and is carried by these

This word describes the size of the earthquake

This famous transform fault is located in the western United States creates significant earthquake activity for California

A stress force that pulls Earth's crust apart and becomes thin in the middle is known as

A stress force that pushes a mass of rock in 2 opposite directions causing rock to break, slip apart or change shape?

A break in the rock of the crust where rock surfaces slip past each other; usually occur along plate boundaries.

The point within the earth where rock is under stress is called

One of the following mineral properties can be determined by observing, rather than doing something to a sample.

Rocks that form when older rocks are heated or squeezed are called ___ rocks.

A(n) _______ is usually made of two or more minerals.

The transformation of existing rock types, in a process called ____________.

It is the movement of sediments from one place to another

Limestone under so much heat and pressure can be transform into _________.

A basic concept in geology that describes transitions through geologic time among the three main rock types: sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous.

This rock was formed by smaller pieces of rock that settled at the bottom of a lake millions of years ago. What type of rock is this?

This rock was molten lava that cooled quickly as it came out of a volcano. What type of rock is this?