Vocabulary 1
What is the Earth's center called?
The core
What was it called where all continents were one land mass?
pangea
What is a chain of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean?
Ring of Fire
What layer of the Earth lies between the crust and the core?
Mantle
What is the movement of large chunks of land under the crust called?
plate tectonics
What is a large sheet of rock that makes up part of Earth's crust?
plate
What is the outermost layer of the Earth?
Earth's Crust
What is it called when plates move towards eachother, forming mountains?
Convergent
Who came up with the theory of the continental drift?
Alfred Wegener
What is it called where the plates move apart, forming volcanoes?
Divergent
What is the moving apart of the continents over many years called?
Continental Drift
What is it called where plates slide past each other, making earthquakes?
transform