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How The Earth Was Made: YELLOWSTONE
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1. What is unusual about Yellowstone?
2. Where is Yellowstone National Park located?
3. How often does Old Faithful erupt?
4. What does Old Faithful show about the rocks?
5. What actually is Indian Ponds?
6. The mix of gases coming out of the hot springs in the middle of the park is the same as where?
7. What is the source of heat at Yellowstone?
8. Who were the first people who noticed the activity in and around Yellowstone?
9. What two things indicate there is a lot of rhyolite in Yellowstone?
10. The Yellowstone eruption was so big, it’s called a _____.
11. How big is the crater in Yellowstone?
12. Describe evidence from California that indicated to scientists when Yellowstone last erupted.
13. How many earthquakes occur in Yellowstone each year?
14. What’s happening under the ground to cause so many earthquakes in Yellowstone?
15. What is the name of the structure under Yellowstone?
16. Yellowstone is the only place where a hot spot has erupted in the middle of a _____.
17. How often does the Yellowstone hot spot erupt?
When did it last erupt?
18. What things precede a volcanic eruption?
19. Describe events that occurred in 2009.
20. What is happening to the floor of Yellowstone Lake?
21. Do scientists know whether or not there will be another ‘super-eruption’?
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Plate Tectonics Geosphere Vocabulary
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7. liquid layer of the core
10. The process by which new
material that lies under the
ocean rises and pushes the
existing tectonic plates
aside, creating new crust as
it does so
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12. boundary where two plates spread apart
13. boundary where two plates come together
forming trenches in the ocean floor and
mountains on land.
15. region of the mantle where the heat
pushes up to the crust, also known as hot
spots
17. mountain ranges on the sea floor where
divergent boundaries come apart
18. solid layer of the core
21. the plastic like layer of the mantle
below the lithosphere
23. brittle layer of earth
consisting of the crust and the
upper portion of the mantle
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1. Theory that the
earth is made of a
number of moving
crustal plates
2. disintegration of a
nucleus releasing energy
3. currents that transfer
heat within the mantle
4. an opening in the
earth's crust from which
molten lava, rock
fragments, ashes, dust,
and gases are ejected from
below the earth's surface
5. properties of matter
that can be observed or
measured without changing
the composition of matter
6. boundary where plates
slide past each other
8. middle layer of earth
between core and crust
9. earth’s brittle outer
layer
11. phenomenon detected by
magnetometers that appears
on the ocean floor showing
the change of polarity
14. layers of rock strata and fossils that
preserves evidence of past change
16. innermost portion of the earth
19. sudden release of energy in
the earth's crust resulting in
the generation of seismic waves
20. the nature and proportions
of the elements comprising a
chemical compound
22. long deep depression in the
ocean floor formed by colliding
boundaries