Plate Boundaries/Pangea
Who was the person who discovered Pangea
A. Einstein
B. Darwin
C. Wegener
D. Newton
C- Wegener
Cooling Magma forms what type of rock?
Igneous Rock
Which layers of earth do we live on
Crust
What is weathering
A. Breaks
B. Moves
C. Drops
A. Breaks
Molten Rock UNDER the Earth is called
Magma
Give one piece of evidence for Pangea
Fossils of animals on muliple continents
Rocks/mountains matching
Puzzle pieces
What type of rock has layers
Sedimentary
What are the two parts of the crust
Continental and Oceanic
Name one agent of erosion
Water
Ice
Wind
Tsunamis form by
Earthquakes
What happens at a convergent boundary
Mountains form
How is a metamorphic rock form
Heat and pressure
Which is the hottest layer of the earth
the inner core
dropped
What causes an Earthquake
Plate boundaries moving causing stress
What plate causes a rift of new magma to form
Divergent
Name the 3 rocks in order of the rock cycle
Sedimentary, Metamorphic, Igneous
How does the heat of the inner core cause the plates to move
Convection current
Weathering is caused by
weather- wind, water, ice
The Epicenter is on the crust or in the mantle
The crust
Convergent
What is the difference between a rock and a mineral
Rocks contain mulitple minerals. Minerals are only minerals and contain only one.
Name the layers that make up the upper mantle in order from the crust to the core
Lithiosphere and the asthenosphere
What caused the Grand Canyon to form. Name me the type and what agent
Eroision and water
What is one type of system put in place to protect people from Tsunamis
Man groves/ Levees, Breakwaters, Tsunami walls