Layers of the Earth
The thinnest of all of the layers.
What is the crust?
This is the theory that the continents are moving.
What is continental drift?
Using arrows show a subduction zone.
show one arrow going under another arrow
Melted rock found inside the Earth.
What is magma?
Qualitative or Quantitative? Which uses scientific tools to put numerical measurements on their data?
What is Quantitative?
The largest of all the layers.
What is the mantle?
What rock evidence has been found that suggests that the continents were once connected?
What is a fossil?
Using arrows, show a convergent boundary.
-----> <-------
Liquid rock found outside the Earth's surface.
What is lava?
Qualitative or Quantitative? Which describes observations without a numerical value such as soft, red, wet, etc.?
What is Qualitative?
Which is larger, the outer core or the inner core?
What is the outer core?
This layer of the Earth is what allows the continents to move.
What is the mantle?
Using arrows, show a divergent boundary.
<----- ----->
This is the boundary that causes the most earthquakes.
What is a transform fault boundary?
The three types or rock.
Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary
This is what is believed to keep the inner core a solid.
What is pressure?
The name of the super continent that scientists think existed millions of years ago.
What is Pangaea?
Using arrows, show a transform fault boundary.
show two parallel arrows going the opposite direction
The name of the mountain range found in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Mid Atlantic Ridge?
These type of rocks tend to have obvious layers, pieces of sediment pressed together, or fossils.
What is sedimentary rock?
The inner and outer core are both made of these two materials.
What is iron and nickel?
Scientists believe that India used to be part of which continent?
What is Africa?
The heavier of the two plates (continental or oceanic).
What is oceanic?
This type of lava occurs when magma erupts into seawater resembling rounded globs.
What is pillow lava?
These types of rocks tend to have twisted, folded, or swirled layers that have been pressed together or melted together over time.
What is metamorphic rock?