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



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

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