Layers of the Earth
What is the very middle layer of the Earth called?
What is the Inner Core
What is the process called that makes our plates move?
What kind of movement happens at divergent plate boundaries?
What is Plates move away from each other
What kind of features can be found at divergent boundaries?
What is mid ocean ridges, rift valleys, and earthquakes
Who was the scientist who came up with Continental drift?
Who was alfred wegener
What is the crust
What is the heat source that heats up the Asthenosphere?
What kind of movement happens at convergent plate boundaries?
What is plates move towards each other
What kind of features can be found at convergent boundaries between oceanic and oceanic crust?
What is trenches and volcanic islands
What is the process of crust being recycled into the mantle called?
What is subuction
The crust and the upper mantle together is called what?
What is the lithosphere
What happens to the density of magma closer to the center of the earth?
What is it gets less dense, which makes it float up to the top
What kind of movement happens at transform plate boundaries?
What is they move horizontally past each other
What kind of features can be found at convergent boundaries between oceanic and continental crust?
What is trenches, and volcanic mountains
What was the supercontinent called?
What is Pangea
What part of our earth is responsible for making our plates move?
The Asthenosphere
What happens to the density of the magma further away from the center of the earth?
What is It gets more dense, which makes it sink back to the bottom
Is crust created destroyed or neither at divergent plate boundaries?
What is created
What kind of features can be found at convergent boundaries between continental and continental plates?
What is mountain ranges
What is the inner core made of?
What is solid nickel and iron?
What happens to temperature and pressure as you move closer to the center of the Earth?
What is They both increase
What would happen if the convection currents in our asthenosphere stopped?
What is our plates wouldn't be moving
Is crust created destroyed or neither at convergent plate boundaries?
What is destroyed
What kind of features can be found at transform boundaries?
What is a fault line
What is the outer core made of?