Earth's Interior
Plate Boundaries
Drifting Continents
Plate Features
Plate Tectonics
100
What is another name for earth's crust
What is Lithosphere
100
What boundary is created when two plates collide?
What is Convergent?
100
What is the theory that states continents were once connected and broke apart and slowly drifted to their current positions?
What is Continental Drift Theory?
100
Undersea mountain ranges are called what?
What is Mide Ocean Ridge?
100
Large sections of the Earth's crust and mantle are called what?
What is plates?
200
What are the 4 layers of the earth?
What are crust, mantle, inner core and outer core
200
What boundary is created when two plates divide?
What is Divergent?
200
What is the name of the SUPERcontinent that existed millions of years ago?
What is Pangaea?
200
What are large cracks in the Earth's crust called?
What is Faults
200
What is a transform boundary?
What is When two plates slide past each other?
300
What is the plasticlike layer of the earth on which the lithosphere moves?
What is the asthenosphere?
300
What boundary is created when two plates slide past each other?
What is Transform?
300
Who came up with the term Pangaea and the Continental Drift Theory?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
300
What is created when two oceanic plates collide?
What is Deep sea trenches?
300
What is the main difference between continental and oceanic plates?
What is Continental is Land. What is Oceanic is ocean?
400
Which layer of the earth is the hottest?
What is core?
400
What is the process in which one lithospheric plate slides under another?
What is Subduction?
400
What evidence was used to show Continental Drift Theory?
What are plant and animal fossils and rocks?
400
What is the process in which lithospheric plates slide under another?
What is subduction?
400
List three types of interactions that can occur at plate boundaries?
What is Collide, Divide and Slide?
500
Which layer of the earth is made of liquid?
What is the outer core?
500
What type of boundary created the San Andreas Fault?
What is Transform?
500
What does the word Pangaea mean?
What is All Land
500
What landform is made when two continental plates collide?
What is Mountains?
500
What is the proccess that creates new crust as two oceanic plates move away from each other?
What is sea floor spreading?
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