Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Plate Boundaries
Landforms
Miscellaneous
100
Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water.
What is the outer layer or crust?
100
Earth's outer layer is divided into sections called ____________.
What are plates?
100
Two plates move away from each other.
What is divergent?
100
A boundary type that produces no landforms
What is transform boundaries?
100
The theory Wegner proposed to his colleagues
What is the Continental Drift/the supercontinent Pangea?
200
A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like.
What is a cross section?
200
The plates of Earth's outer layer __________________.
What is move?
200
Two plates move toward each other.
What is convergent?
200
2 of the 3 landforms found at a convergent plate boundary
What are volcanos, mountains, and trench?
200
This plate boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
300
Where two plates meet
What is a plate boundary?
300
Earth's plates move on top of a soft, solid layer called the __________________.
What is the mantle?
300
The type of boundary associated with mid-ocean ridges
What is divergent boundary?
300
The type of landform that is created at an underwater divergent plate boundary
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
300
A type of landform that only forms on convergent plate boundaries when the boundary line falls on land
What are mountains?
400
A type of geologic event that happens at both convergent and divergent boundaries
What are earthquakes?
400
If you removed all the vegetation, soil, and water from the surface of the earth this would be left.
What is hard, solid rock?
400
Mid-ocean ridge, trench, and volcano.
What are Landforms?
400
The type of landform that is created at an underwater convergent boundary
What is a trench?
400
A supercontinent that existed just before Pangea that consisted of only India, Antarctica, Africa, South America, and Australia
What is Gondwanaland?
500
Any event in which gas, ash, or lava is coming to the surface of the earth from the Mantle
What is volcanic activity?
500
At divergent plate boundaries, soft, solid rock rises from the mantle and _______, adding new solid rock to the edges of both plates.
What is hardens?
500
The type of plate boundary associated with a Trench
What is convergent?
500
What happens when two convergent plates meet underwater (describe the process)
One plate is shoved under the other, into the mantle
500
The theory Wegener proposed which described that all the continents were all joined together in a supercontinent called Pangaea.
What is continental drift?