Earth Layers
Boundaries
Plates
Changes
misc
100
Layer of Earth directly above the outer core
What is mantle
100
Plates collide along it
What is convergent boundaries
100
The theory that Earth is broken into plates that move and grind past each other.
What is plate tectonics?
100
The word tectonics means
What is builder?
100
The one thing that is changed in an experiment
What is independent variable?
200
Outer most layer of Earth
What is the crust
200
Forms where 2 plates pull apart
What is a rift?
200
What the Pacific plate carries
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
Other forces that change the landscape of Earth
What is weathering, deposition, glaciers, meteorites, and /or wind
200
An educated prediction of what might happen in an experiment
What is a hypothesis?
300
Zone of partially melted rock in the upper mantle
What is asthenosphere
300
Plates move apart from each other along this
What is a divergent boundary?
300
The land mass that occupied the Earth 200 million years ago
What is Pangea?
300
This is the types of volcano that spreads out low and wide
What is a shield volcano?
300
The reason for an experiment
What is testable question or problem?
400
Innermost layer of Earth
What is inner core
400
This is the type of boundary where most earthquakes happen.
What is a transform fault boundary?
400
The process that forms new ocean floor
What is sea floor spreading?
400
A simple form of a volcano with one main chamber through which lava and ash flows.
What is cinder cone?
400
Variables that we keep the same
What is control variable?
500
The stiff layer of the upper mantle and crust that floats on the asthenoshpere
What is the lithosphere?
500
This how often Earth's crust moves
What is all the time?
500
A scientist that studies the physical features of Earth
What is geophysicist?
500
Hot spot volcanoes can help form these
What are islands?
500
Greek prefix for Earth
What is geo?
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