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Grade Earth
Vocabulary
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What do we call a bowl shaped
depression at the mouth of a
volcano or geyser?
Crater
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What do we call a very large
ocean wave that is caused by
an underwater earthquake?
Tsunami
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What do we call a large mass
of ice slowly moving over a
mountain or through a valley?
Glacier
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What do we call molten rock
that flows from a volcano or
from a crack in the earth?
Lava
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What do we call the solid
center of the Earth that is
made of solid iron and nickel?
Inner Core
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What do we call the depressions
in the continental crust that were
formed when the plates pulled
apart?
Rift Valleys
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What do we call molten
rock from Earth’s mantle?
Magma
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What do we call a break or
place where pieces of Earth’s
crust move?
Fault
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What do we call a
supercontinent containing all
of Earth’s land that existed
about 225 million years ago?
Pangea
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What do we call the area
outside the inner core that
creates the Earth’s magnetic
field?
Outer Core
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What instrument do
scientists use to measure the
strength of an earthquake?
Seismograph
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What do we call a rigid block
of crust and upper mantle
rock?
Plate
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What fruit would be an
example of the earth’s
layers?
Apple
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What do we call the layer of
rock beneath Earth’s crust?
Mantle
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How do earthquakes
occur?
When two plates press against each other, pressure begins to
build. When the strain becomes too great, the ground
moves suddenly along these faults and an earthquake
happens.
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What do we call the thin,
outer layer of Earth?
Crust
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