Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Shaking of Earth's crust

• seismograph
• earthquake
• epicenter
• fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Deepest-innermost (NOT thickest) layer of Earth

• mantle

• core

• crust

• plates

Thickest layer of Earth, made of solid and melted rock

• crust
• mantle
• core
• plates

Point on Earth's surface right above the origin of an earthquake

• epicenter
• focus
• fault
• plates

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Layer of Earth that includes land and the ocean floor

• plates
• crust
• mantle
• core

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Continent-sized slabs that make up the crust and upper mantle

• core
• crust
• plates
• mantle

Break in Earth's crust along which rocks move

• plates
• mantle
• core
• fault

Instrument that records earthquake waves

• water
• recorder
• seismograph
• scientist

Underground point where an earthquake first starts

• epicenter
• focus
• mantle
• fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Earth's outermost layer

• crust
• mantle
• core
• plate