Layers of the Earth
The first layer of Earth and the thickest layer?
What is the crust?
The scientist who contributed to the idea of a supercontinent?
Who was Alfred Wegener?
What is the force constantly pulling us down toward Earth?
What is gravity?
What is a hole built up in the Earth’s surface where magma and gases are released?
What is a volcano?
What is carrying away of loose materials by natural processes?
What is erosion?
The inner core is made of what?
What is solid iron?
Who was the scientific duo who led to the discovery that magnetic strips on the sides of ridges on the ocean floor were the result of sea-floor spreading? This finding was very important to plate tectonics.
Who were Drummond Matthews and Fred Vine
A representation that shows the workings of an object or system?
What is a model?
gWhat is the type of boundary formed when plates separate or divide?
What is the divergent boundary?
What is the difference between a rock and mineral?
What is a mineral is a type of rock and a rock can't be a mineral?
Why is the inner core solid?
What is extreme pressure in the outer core?
Wegener thought that all the continents were once one big continent. What was it named?
What is Pangea?
What is a low, flat piece of land at or near the mouth of a river?
What is a delta?
What type of boundary is formed when plates slide past each other?
What is transform boundary?
What happens to rocks when water freezes inside them?
What is cracks?
The part of the mantle called the is made of soft rock that bends like plastic?
What is the asthenosphere?
Who is American seismologist that is famous for his work on deep focus earthquakes and how they are associated with subduction zones.
Who was Hugo Benioff?
What is the process of mountain building, leading into the formation of the intensely deformed belts which constitute mountain range?
What is oogenesis?
What type of boundary formed when plates collide?
What is the convergent boundary?
What is the grinding away of rocks by other rocks or sand particles called?
What is abrasion?
The outer core is composed of?
What is liquid nickel and iron?
Who was the scientist who contributed to the theory of seafloor spreading?
Who was Glomar Challenger?
What is the highest of all plates on earth that are direct products of Diastrophism?
What is the Diastrophic plateaus?
What is the continuous, solid outer shell of the Earth called?
What is the lithosphere?
What are the forces that can change landforms?
What is water, ice, wind, and gravity?