Plate Tectonics
Earth's Layers
Vocabulary
Volcanoes
Oldies
100
The plate on which the United States sits
What is the North American Plate?
100
The outermost layer of the earth
What is the crust?
100
Plate boundary in which plates are pulling apart
What is a divergent boundary?
100
A broad, non-explosive volcano
What is shield?
100
Newton's 2nd Law says F=M?
What is A (acceleration)?
200
The plate that the state of Hawaii sits on
What is the Pacific Plate?
200
The solid part of the center of the earth
What is the inner core?
200
Plate boundary in which the plates slide past each other
What is a transform boundary?
200
A tall, broad-based volcano made of tephra and lava
What is composite?
200
Chemical Symbol -- Na
What is sodium?
300
The "crack" in the Earth's surface between North America and Europe
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
300
The only truly liquid layer of the earth
What is the outer core?
300
The place at a boundary where one plate is forced under another
What is a subduction zone?
300
Molten rock stored underground or inside a volcano
What is magma?
300
Name of the last column of elements listed on the periodic table
What is the Noble Gases?
400
The type of boundary in which plates collide
What is a convergent boundary?
400
The crust and upper mantle make up this
What is the lithosphere?
400
Spell the name Wegener gave to the large landmass he believed used to be all of the continents put together
What is P-A-N-G-A-E-A?
400
Feature responsible for the formation of the Hawaiin island volcanoes
What is a hot spot?
400
Step in the water cycle in which water is released and evaporated from plants
What is transpiration?
500
The Mountain Range which formed when India slammed into Asia
What is the Himalayas?
500
The lower and middle mantle is also called this
What is the asthenosphere?
500
Uneven heating causes material in the mantle to constantly and slowly rise and fall
What is Convection Current?
500
Mt. St. Helens, which blew its top in 1980, is located in this state
What is Washington?
500
Step in the carbon cycle in which plants use the sun and CO2 to make food
What is photosynthesis?
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