PLATE TECTONICS
The names of the four layers of the earth.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle and crust
Which layer is the thinnest?
What is the Crust?
The movement of sediment from one location to another.
What is Erosion?
What are the 4 main layers of the Earth?
What are the Crust, mantle, inner and outer core?
This can occur at Transform plate boundaries, sliding past each other to release stress.
What is an earthquake?
The Himalayan Mountains (Mt Everest) were formed by which type of boundary?
What is convergent.
What are the 2 layers of the Earth that are solid?
What is the Inner core and the Crust?
What is Ms. Kraft's Favorite type of rock?.
What is Igneous Rock (Granite)?
The Grand Canyon formed by what form of weathering/erosion?
What is Physical Weathering from water (Colorado River)?
What happens to the temperature and density of the material in the convection current after it rises?
Does the temperature decrease and the density increase?
Mid-Atlantic Ridge was formed this way.
What is a divergent boundary?
How did Yosemite Valley form?
What are Glaciers carving out the granite over time?
Triangle-shaped area at the mouth of a river and where deposition occurs.
What is a delta?
What are the names of the upper portion of the Mantle and the lower part of the Crust.
What is the Asthenosphere and the Lithosphere?
What are the 2 types of crust?
What is oceanic and continental