Earth's Layers
Landforms
Rock Cycle
Theory of Continental Drift
Grab Bag
100
This region of the Earth where the Plates are located.
What is the Lithosphere?
100
This is a hot spot of volcanic and earthquake activity in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
100
This rock is created through cooling magma.
What is Igneous Rock?
100
This is the name given to the supercontinent.
What is Pangaea?
100
This is the exact location of an Earthquake INSIDE of the Earth.
What is the Focus?
200
This is the layer of the Earth on which we live.
What is the Crust?
200
This landform is famous and present in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Mid Atlantic Ridge or Mid Ocean Ridge?
200
Sedimentary rocks are created through this process.
What is Lithification?
200
This is the German Scientist who came up with this original Theory.
Who is Alfred Wegner?
200
This is a mountain that is formed when a pocket of magma pushes up on the crust.
What is a Dome Mountain?
300
This layer of the Earth has the greatest volume and is the thickest.
What is the Mantle?
300
This is the process that creates new crust material.
What is Sea Floor Spreading?
300
The specific kind of physical breakdown of rocks because of wind, water, temperature changes, or plant growth.
What is Mechanical Weathering?
300
This is what Wegner was missing to prove his Theory of Continental Drift.
What is Plate Tectonics?
300
Melted rock inside the mantle is given this name.
What is Magma?
400
This region of the Earth is underneath the Lithosphere.
What is the Asthenosphere?
400
This landform is created when there is subduction.
What is an Ocean Trench?
400
This is the process in which pieces of rock get carried away because of wind or water.
What is Erosion?
400
Wegner came up with his theory because he saw these two continents seemed to fit together.
What is South America and Africa?
400
This is the TOOL used to measure earthquakes.
What is a Seismograph?
500
This is the two metals that are present inside the core.
What are Nickel and Iron?
500
These are the three types of boundaries that describe how plates move and interact.
What are Divergent, Convergent, and Transform?
500
This is what it is called when pieces of eroded material settle in a new place.
What is Deposition?
500
This is what causes plates to move according to this theory.
What is the convecting mantle?
500
This is a crack in the crust where movement can occur.
What is a Lateral Fault?
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