Layers of the Earth
The Incredible Crust
Loopy Landforms
Many Mountains
Do You Know?
100
This layer contains all living things.
What is the crust?
100
The Earth's crust is broken into these.
What are tectonic plates?
100
A body of land surrounded by water on all sides.
What is an island?
100
There are _______ kinds of mountains.
What is four?
100
The _____________ is made up of many kinds of rocks such as granite, sandstone, and marble. (name the layer)
What is the crust?
200
The hottest layer of the Earth.
What is the inner core?
200
True or False: The crust is about 20-40 miles thick in most places.
What is true?
200
Naturally raised area of land smaller than a mountain.
What is a hill?
200
Mountains in a range have the same ____________.
What is shape?
200
True or False: The Earth's plates are not moving today.
What is false?
300
The thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
300
The crust is thinnest under the _______________.
What are oceans?
300
An area of low land between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
300
These mountains are formed when two plates crash into each other and the crust crumples upward.
What are fold mountains?
300
The name of the line where two plates pass each other.
What is a fault?
400
This layer is liquid because it is so hot.
What is the outer core or mantle?
400
The ways the plates move. (Name 2 of 3).
What is slide, separate, and collide?
400
A large rise of Earth's surface, often having steep sides.
What is a mountain?
400
These mountains are formed when a pocket of magma forces the crust to bulge upward, but it does not crack the crust.
What are dome mountains?
400
The German scientist that came up with the theory of Continental Drift. a. Alfred West b. Alfred Wegener c. Amos True
Who was Alfred Wegener?
500
The inner core is __________ because it is under so much pressure.
What is solid?
500
Name one way geologists figured out that the continents were all once joined together.
What are Africa and South America fit together like puzzle pieces, huge scratches and gouges in rocky surfaces in Africa and South America matched perfectly, or rocks and fossils found on the coasts matched each other exactly.
500
A deep narrow valley with steep sides, and usually has a stream running through.
What is a canyon?
500
These mountains are formed when two plates collide and one plate is subducted underneath the other. The friction causes the top plate to melt. With intense heat and pressure, hot magma is forced out of the crust, which becomes lava when it touches the Earth's surface.
What are volcanoes?
500
The name of the super continent millions of years ago when all of the continents were joined together.
What is Pangaea?
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