Earths Layers
What is the Model B on the Avocado?
Crust
What is Plate 1
Pacific Plate
What are the three types of Plate Movement
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Plates moving away from each other create ocean basins and rift valleys
How are metamorphic rocks formed
Heat and Pressure
What is the Model D on the Avocado?
Answer is _______
What is Plate 2
Africa Plate
Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
Alfred Wegner
What is the name of the super continent that split up
Pangaea
How are Igneous Rocks Formed
Melting of lava, and the cooling into Rocks
What is Model C on the Avocado
Inner Core
What is Plate 3
Australian Plate
What does a Convergent Plate movement make?
Mountains and Volcanoes
The type of heat transfer that occurs in the mantle
Convection
How is sediment formed?
Weathering and Erosion
Why is the model not to scale
Because it is not the same size as the earth just a representation
What is plate 5
What evidence did Alfred Wegner propose to create the theory of Continental Drift
Movement of Fossils
When two plates collide, which creates
Mountains or Volcanoes
How are sedimentary rocks formed
Compaction
How could you make this model more accurate
Size, shape, different layers
What is Plate D
South American Plate
What does a transform plate movement create
Earth Quakes
What is Ms. Ryan's First name
Stephanie
What are the different types of rock transformations, ( things that cause the rocks to form)
Heat / Pressure
Compaction
Cooling
Melting