Moving and Shaking
Layers of the Earth
Hey, hey Albert Wegener!
Tectonic Plates
Plate Boundaries
Picture Clues
100
Earthquakes happen most frequently at this type of plate boundary.
What is a transform boundary??
100
The solid metal that mostly makes up the ball in the center of the Earth.
What is the iron?
100
What was Albert's profession?
What is a weatherman?
100
This is the name of the plate that is sliding under our feet.
What is the North American plate?
100
The mid Atlantic Ridge is an example of what type of boundary?
What is a divergent boundary?
100
What is Australia?
200
Mountains form most frequently at this type of plate boundary.
a) Transform
b) Convergent (collisional)
c) Convergent (subduction)
What is b) Convergent collisional?
200
All living things on Earth are found in or on this layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
200
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This type of evidence was found on the continents of South America and Africa.
What are fossils?
200
The name where plates meet
What are plate boundaries?
200
A convergent boundary means that the two tectonic plates are doing this.
What is moving towards each other?
200
1. Crust
2. Mantle
3. Outer Core
4. Inner core
300
The longest mountain range in the world is called this.
a) the mid-Atlantic Ridge
b) the Rocky Mountains
c) Mount Everest
What is a) the mid-Atlantic Ridge?
300
This is the thickest layer of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
300
This tropical plant fossil was found in what type of climate?
What is an arctic climate?
300
Europe and Asia are continents found on this tectonic plate.
What is the Eurasian Plate?
300
At a transform boundary the tectonic plates are moving this way.
What is side to side or across each other?
300
What tectonic plate is number 7?
The African Plate
400
At a convergent boundary one plate might slide underneath another plate. This is a called ______.
a) fault line
b) sink hole
c) subduction
What is c) subduction?
400
Liquid metal makes up this layer of the planet that sits just underneath the mantle.
What is the outer core?
400
This evidence was found in the desert to support his continental drift theory.
What are glacier scrapes?
400
Most volcano and earthquake events occur here?
a) At plate boundaries
b) In the middle of plates
c) At both boundaries and the middle of plates
What is a) plate boundaries
400
At a convergent collision boundary the tectonic plates created these.
What are the Mountains?
400
What plate is number 13?
The Antarctic Plate
500
California is directly above a transform boundary which explains why there are so many of these.
a) earthquakes
b) tornados
c) plate boundaries
What is a) earthquakes?
500
These are the two types of crust that make up the outer layer of the Earth. One is underwater, the other is above sea level.
What are oceanic and continental crust?
500
Alfred Wegener's Theory
What is Pangea and the spreading of the continents.
500
This is the biggest of the tectonic plates. Clue: the biggest continent is mostly on this plate.
What is the Eurasian Plate?
500
At a convergent subduction boundary the tectonic plates create these
What is volcanos?
500
The eastern part of Asia is actually on this tectonic plate.
What is the North American Plate?
600
At a divergent boundary, this is what fills the gap as the two plates move away from each other.
a) air
b) water
c) magma
What is c) magma?
600
The thinnest of the two types that make up Earth's crust.
What is the oceanic crust?
600
The only thing that Wegener lacked to prove his theory.
What is the force that made the continents move?
600
New Earth (rock) is born at plate boundaries because of this type of activity that is common where tectonic plates meet. Clue: Ring of Fire
What is volcanic activity?
600
This is the type of boundary that formed the mid-Atlantic Ridge.
What is a divergent boundary?
600
The continents all used to be one giant supercontinent called this.
What is Pangea?