Earth Science: Volcanoes, Earthquakes, And Mountain Ranges Flashcards
Thinnest and Outermost Layer of the Earth; it is where life and landforms are found.
Crust
Thickest layer of the Earth.
Mantle
What is the Outer Core?
Liquid layer of the Earth
Inner most hottest layer of the Earth.
Inner Core
The Philippines is located at the __________.
Pacific Ring of Fire.
What does it mean when something is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire?
Means that our country and other places located in the ring of fire is experiencing earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tectonic activities.
True or False, does plates move?
True! Plates moves very slowly but constantly.
What are the movements of plates called?
Tectonics, the movement of the Lithospheric plate is called Plate Tectonics.
What are Plate Boundaries?
Jt is the edges where to plates are located side by side.
Where are most of the volcanoes around the world located ?
At the border of the pacific plate.
What is a volcano ?
It is an opening in the earth’s crust through which lava, volcanic, ashes, and gases escape.
What is an earthquake ?
It is any sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through earth’s rocks.
What causes an earthquakes ?
By a sudden slip on a fault.
What is an earthquakes epicenter ?
It is where the strongest shaking occurs during an earthquake, it is the point on the earth’s surface vertically above the hypocenter or the focus.
What do you call a theory that explains the earth’s lithosphere is divided into several plates that move above the plastic life less rigid athenosphere?
Plate tectonics.
