Journey to the Center of the Earth
Plate Tectonics
Tectonic Consequences
Miscellaneous
100
Thinnest layer
Crust
100
Type of plate boundary where two plates move towards each other
Covergent
100
Formed from convergent boundaries (continental crust to continental crust)
Mountains
100
Source of heat for convection cycles in the Earth
Earth's hot interior (or more specifically outer and inner core)
200
Biggest layer
Mantle
200
Type of boundary?
Transform
200
Transform plates typically cause this
Earthquakes
200
Mountain range in the middle of the ocean where two oceanic plates separate
Mid-oceanic ridge
300
Where convection mostly occurs
Mantle
300
Plates that move away from each other
Divergent
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300
Most earthquakes tend to happen in this layer of the Earth
Lithosphere (upper mantle & crust)
300
Only liquid layer of the Earth
Outer Core
400
Two types of crust are ____
continental and oceanic
400
What drives (creates) plate motion?
Convection cycle
400
Why are there so many earthquakes and volcanoes along the Ring of Fire?
It is located on plate boundaries or borders
400
What two things increase as we go deeper into the Earth?
Pressure and Temperature
500
The inner core is mostly composed of _____.
Iron
500
Describe what happens in the convection cycle in your own words
Hot, less dense material rises and cold, more dense material sinks over and over