Plate boundaries
THE THREE TYPES OF PLATE BOUNDARIES
Answer: What is Convergent, Divergent, and Transform?
THE PLATE TYPES THAT FORMS MOUNTAINS AT A CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY
Answer: What is Continental-Continental?
AN ANCIENT LIZARD THAT LIVED ABOUT 300 MILLION YEARS AGO
Answer: What is Mesosaurus?
THE OUTERMOST LAYER OF THE EARTH
Answer: What is the Crust?
LARGE SECTIONS OF HARD, SOLID ROCK THAT MAKE UP THE EARTH’S CRUST
Answer: What are tectonic plates?
THE PLATE BOUNDARY WHERE TWO PLATES SLIDE PAST EACH OTHER
Answer: What is Transform?
THE PLATE TYPES THAT FORMS MID-OCEAN RIDGES AT A DIVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY
Answer: What is Oceanic-Oceanic?
THE LANDFORM CREATED BY A DIVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY IN BETWEEN AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA
Answer: What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
THE LAYER MADE OF SOFT SOLID ROCK, ALLOWS THE PLATES TO MOVE ABOVE IT
Answer: What is the Mantle?
THE INSIDE OF AN OBJECT THAT IS EXPOSED BY MAKING A STRAIGHT CUT THROUGH IT
ANSWER: WHAT IS A CROSS SECTION
THE PLATE BOUNDARY WHERE TWO PLATES GO TOWARDS EACH OTHER
Answer: What is Convergent?
THE PLATE INTERACTION THAT FORMS VOLCANOES AT A CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY
Answer: What is Subduction?
THE NAME OF THE MOST RECENT SUPERCONTINENT
Answer: What is Pangea?
THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, PROVIDES HEAT FOR THE MANTLE
Answer: What is the Core?
OCCURS WHEN TWO PLATES COLLIDE FORCING THE OLDER/DENSER PLATE UNDERNEATH ANOTHER PLATE
ANSWER: WHAT IS SUBDUCTION?
THE PLATE BOUNDARY WHERE TWO PLATES GO AWAY FROM EACH OTHER
Answer: What is Divergent?
THE PLATE TYPES THAT FORM THE BIGGEST TRENCHES AT A CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY
Answer: What is Oceanic-Oceanic?
SCIENTIFIC TOOL IN SPACE THAT MEASURES HOW MUCH THE PLATES MOVE
Answer: What is GPS?
THIS LAYER IS MADE OF RIGID HARD SOLID ROCK, AND IT IS BENEATH THE WATER AND SOIL
Answer: What is the Crust?
THE PROCESS OF HEAT RISING AND SINKING CREATING MOVEMENT
ANSWER: WHAT ARE CONVECTION CURRENTS?
THE TWO INTERACTIONS THAT CAN HAPPEN AT A CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY
Answer: What is Subduction and Uplift?
THE PLATE TYPES THAT FORMS RIFT VALLEYS AT A DIVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY
Answer: What is Continental-Continental?
THE ENVIRONMENT THE GLOSSOPTERIS COULD ONLY GROW IN
Answer: What is warm and humid?
THE PLASTIC-LIKE LAYER IN THE UPPER MANTLE WHERE CONVECTION CURRENTS OCCUR
Answer: What is the asthenosphere?
THE MOVEMENT OF CONTINENTS RESULTING FROM THE MOTION OF TECTONIC PLATES
ANSWER: WHAT IS CONTINENTAL DRIFT?