Layers of the Earth
Topographic Maps
Theory of Plate Tectonics
Plate Boundaries
Plate Boundaries
(around the world)
100
what are the layers of the earth in order
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core
100
these connect points on the graph with the same elevation
What are contour lines?
100
The big landmass earth once was.
What is Pangea
100
colliding plates are.......
What is convergent boundary
100
the San Andres fault (what boundary)
What is transform boundary
200
the crust is to the skin of the apple as the mantle is to the _________ of the apple
What is fruit
200
which is the highest elevation on the map
What is 3500
200
true or false: the theory of plate tectonics explains the formation, movement, and subduction of Earth's plates.
What is true
200
when an oceanic plate goes under the continental plate.
What is subduction
200
where the Himalayas mountains formed
What is convergent boundary
300
this uneven heating causes material in the mantle to rise and fall
What are convection currents
300
which point has the most steepest line
What is point c
300
the plates of the lithosphere float on top of the _______.
What is asthenosphere
300
how is new crust formed? (2 answers)
What is cooled down lava or mid- ocean ridges
300
Hawaii was formed by an ______ boundary.
What is a converant
400
the solid rocky shell around the earth which is broken up into 20 plates
What is the lithosphere
400
where is the erosion most highest?
What is point C (the more steeper is where erosion is the highest)
400
what are the major lithosphere plates?
What is the Pacific, North American, South American, Eurasian, African, Indo - Australian, and Antartic
400
explain how fault lines use potential and kinetic energies to cause an earthquake.
What is plates push up against each other, build potential energy, and then finally slips letting out kinetic energy and causes an earthquake.
400
the mid Atlantic ridge is a _______ boundary.
What is a Divergent
500
how many kilometers is the crust beneath the ocean (how thick is it)
What is 10 kilometers
500
calculate the contour interval for A remember: Elevation Difference/ # of spaces
What is 375 (so you take 1750-250 and then divide it by the spaces which is 4 and you get 375)
500
what is another name of the theory of plate tectonics.
What is the theory of continental drift
500
new Orleans was built on a what?
What is a delta
500
the ring of fire has plates made up of __________ boundary
What is a convergent.
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