Earths Structures and processes

The tremendous pressure is on factor that causes the inner core to be what state of matter?

What is the correct order starting with the surface of the Earth?

Durable gemstones like rubies are valuable bc of their color & hardness. Moh scale number?

The Earth's plates move very slowly across the Earth's surface on a thin layer of partly melted

Which wave cause the serious damage to Earth's surface

Scientist say the Earth's plates

When you add heat and pressure to rock you usually end up with

What type of fault line is San Andreas?

When two plates collide

The diagram represents a

How many seismographs does it take to find the epicenter?

Which layer is made up of partly crust and partly of a solid mantle material?

Basalt granite and igneous are all examples of what type of rock?

secondary waves cannot travel through

Energy from an earthquake is greatest when

What do scientist use to monitor earthquakes

What material makes up the lithosphere?

Which can be caused by the movement of the Earth's plates.

Which waves travel the fastest and move through liquids and solids

Which waves arrive to the seismograph first.

Rock that contains small pebbles and fossils is most commonly

What type of fault is caused by shearing forces

Which best describes the structure of the Lithosphere?

What forms at a divergent boundary

the primary cause of continental drift, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions

The earthquake wave that causes the Earth's surface to roll and shake is the

quartz, a mineral that is classified a silicate. two common elements are found in silicates?

during an earthquake, energy spreads out in all directions as vibrations called

Oceanic and continental crust collide causing volcanoes. WHY?

when scientist use 3 different seismographs to determine the epicenter

What element mostly makes up the Earth's crust?

The crust is made up of what two ROCK materials

What surface feature provides evidence of very hot, molten mantle?