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Q2: sketch a diagram of the earth and label the main layers
Ans: The earth main layers are core , mantle and crust.
Crust
Mantle
Core
Ans: The structure of the Earth is similar to the egg. The egg
has a shell and the earths structure has a crust so thats
why the earth crust is like a shell of an egg. The earth has a
mantle and the egg has an egg white so thats why its mantle
is like egg white and the core is like the yolk.
Q4a :What are tectonic plates? (b)How fast ado Tectonic
Ans: Tectonic plates are crust and the upper part of the
mantle is cracked into several very large pieces these are
called tectonic plates. Tectonic plates can move towards or
away from each other and also move past each other.
Tectonic plates move few centimeters per year. Convection
current in mantle causes tectonic plates to move.
Q5: why do volcanoes and earth quake develop at plate
boundaries?
Ans: when plates move past, over, under or apart from each
other hot magma from the mantle can escape, resulting in a
volcano. Friction between the moving plates can make them
move in sudden jerks producing earthquake.
Q6: Why is it important that scientists do not make
Year
Amount of lava
erupted / million m
1794
Numbers of year
since previous
eruption
34
1858
64
120
1872
14
20
27
1906
34
80
1929
23
12
1944
15
25
Q7a : Use the data in Table 1to plot a graph with a line of
best fit to show how the amount of lava changes with the
number of years since the last eruption.