Plate Tectonics
Layers of the Earth
Plate Boundaires
Miscellaneous
True or False
100
The theory in which scientists believe the plates under the continents move them
What is Plate Tectonics?
100
The innermost layer of the earth
What is the core?
100
The Himalayan mountains are the result of a ___________________________ boundary.
What is convergent boundary
100
The thinnest layer of the Earth
What is the Crust?
100
Volcanoes are made when two continental crusts converge.
False
200
Alfred Wegener believer that long ago the seven continents were joined together, forming this supercontinent.
What is Pangea?
200
The part of the core that is solid and probably made up of iron and nickel
What is the Inner Core?
200
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
What is an earthquake
200
Where do most of Earth's volcanoes and earthquakes occur?
What is along plate boundaries?
200
Earthquakes can occur at converging boundaries.
True
300
Name four of the major plates
What is any of the following North American plate, South American plate, Eurasian Plate, Indoaustralia plate, African plate, Antarctica plate
300
The two regions of the core
What is the Inner Core and the Outer Core?
300
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ____________________ boundary.
What is a transform boundary
300
Can you become the size of a marble if you go in the Inner Core?
Yes you can, you will also melt.
300
The Inner Core is made of liquid
False
400
Pangaea existed this many millions of years ago
What is around 250 million years ago
400
The four layers of our Earth
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
400
What happens to continental material when it collides?
It is forced upwards
400
The process when plates are converging and one moves under the other.
What is Subduction
400
The Mantle is part of the Lithosphere and Asthenosphere
True
500
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)
500
The solid upper mantle and crust.
What is the Lithosphere?
500
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)
500
Mount Arenal, a volcano in Costa Rica, is erupting. Heat is being released during the eruption. What is the source of the heat?
The heat comes from deep within the Earth
500
Continent-Continent convergent plates boundaries have volcanoes, but no earthquakes.
False
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