Vocabulary
Structure of the Earth
Continental Drift Theory
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
100
The thinnest layer of the Earth is known as
What is the crust?
100
The number of main layers the Earth has.
What is four?
100
One piece of evidence for the Continental Drift Theory you can see on a map.
What is matching coastlines?
100
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
What is a plate boundary?
100
The Himalayan mountains are the result of a ___________________________ boundary.
What is convergent boundary?
200
Greek for "all earth" this is the name given to the super continent
What is Pangaea?
200
The thickest layer of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
200
Evidence of matching animal fossils from two separate continents _____________________ and _____________________
What is Africa, South America, India, Australia, Antarctica?
200
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary and ___________________ occurs here where new ocean floor is formed.
What is divergent boundary; sea-floor spreading?
200
Hot air or liquid is less ________________ than cool air or liquid.
What is dense?
300
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea that drifted apart.
What is the Continental Drift Theory?
300
Lithosphere "floats" or moves on top of this layer of the Earth.
What is the asthenosphere?
300
The seafloor is spreading at this major landmark under the Atlantic ocean.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
300
This is where 2 plates are rubbing together usually creating seismic activity.
What is a transform boundary?
300
Name 2 types of volcanoes that erupt explosively.
What are composite and cinder cone?
400
This is where all of the plates are interacting with one another.
What is plate boundaries?
400
The rigid part of the Earth including the crust and the upper mantle (makes up the plates of the Earth)
What is the lithosphere?
400
Created the Continental Drift Theory.
Who is Alfred Wagner?
400
This is the mechanism (what causes) the plates to move
What is convection cycles in the mantle?
400
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ____________________ boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
500
States that youngest rocks of ocean floor are at divergent boundaries, moving outward.
What is the seafloor spreading?
500
This is where the Earth's crust is the thinnest.
What is oceanic crust?
500
Continental Drift Theory was not accepted because it did not explain this.
What is how the continents moved?
500
These are 3 types of convergent boundaries.
What is oceanic-oceanic, continental-continental, oceanic-continental?
500
This explodes from a volcano and hardens quickly throwing ash/rock everywhere.
What is pyroclastic material?
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