Density
What is mass?
Where crust is destroyed
What is a continental-continental convergent boundary?
Person who proposed continental drift theory
Who is Alfred Wegner?
Comparison of rock layers to find what time they were formed
What is relative age?
Layer of Earth that creates a current to move the tectonic plates
What is the mantle?
What is volume?
What is continental rift or rift valley?
Supercontinent that existed 250 million years ago
What is Pangaea?
Number of years something has existed
What is absolute age?
Thickest layer of Earth
What is the mantle?
The amount of matter in a certain space
What is density?
Plate boundary that forms an ocean over time
What is a continental-continental divergent boundary?
What is plate tectonics?
Fossils found in a large geographical area that lived for a short period of time
What are index fossils?
Type of crust with the greatest density
What is the oceanic crust?
What is 17g/cm3?
What causes the oceanic plate to subduct under the continental plate?
What is different densities?
This is how much the plates move every year
What is 10cm?
Rocks found at the bottom layer are older than rocks found at the top layer
What is the law of superposition?
Layer that creates Earth's magnetic field
What is the outer core?
Density of a rectangular prism with the dimensions of 2cm, 5cm, and 5cm and a mass of 5g.
What is 0.1g/cm3?
Process that causes the tectonic plates to move
What is convection current?
This evidence shows how the continents are like puzzle pieces that used to be connected
What is continental fit?
Method of finding the absolute age of rocks
What is radioactive dating or radiometric dating?
Most dense layer of Earth
What is the inner core?