Relier Pairs Earthquakes & VolcanoesVersion en ligne Revision of Year 4 Geography (Term 3 2017/2018) par Choi Ming Jiun 1 When the Earth's plates meet, 2 Earthquake is like a drawer which has stuck 3 Dormant volcano or sleeping volcano is 4 When the volcano erupts, 5 The Earth's Core 6 Suddenly they slip past each other 7 Pressure builds up as 8 The edges of the plates sometimes 9 Active volcano is 10 The Earth's Crust 11 Hot and runny rock under the surface of the Earth is called 12 There are even more volcanoes under the sea 13 The Mantle 14 A volcano begins as 15 The Earth's Plates 16 Extinct volcano is 17 When hot and runny rocks comes out of a volcano it is called A layer of solid rock beneath the soil stick together and cannot move. forms a new island. have to tug it hard then suddenly it gives way with a jolt. the land above shakes violently. The solid plates float on the molten rocks of the mantle underneath. The outer core made of hot liquid iron with some nickel they usually slide past each other. molten rock, smoke,dust, ashes and gases escape through the opening. the plates push against each other. A very thick layer of hot rocks volcano that is erupting or can still erupt. volcanoes that have not erupted for a long time. lava. a hole or crack in the Earth's crust. magma. has not erupted for at least 10000 years.