Layers of Earth
What is the outermost layer of Earth made of?
What is hard, solid rock?
At which type of boundary do two plates slide past each other?
What is a transform boundary?
What is the formula for calculation velocity (rate)?
What is velocity = distance รท time?
What was Pangea?
What is one large supercontinent?
What does Steno's Law of Rock Layers tell us?
What is the lower the rock layer, the older it is?
What is the outermost solid layer of Earth called?
What is the Crust?
What landform is created where plates slide past each other?
What is a fault line?
What is 7.5 cm/s?
Who proposed the idea of a super-continent called Pangea?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Where are the oldest fossils typically found - on land or ocean floor?
What is on land?
Which layer lies directly below the lithosphere and can bend or flow slowly?
What is the asthenosphere?
At which boundary do two plates move toward each other?
What is a convergent boundary?
True or false - Plate movement is fast enough for humans to feel.
What is false?
What is the modern theory that Wegener's idea helped to lead to?
What is The Theory of Plate Tectonics?
Why is the ocean floor younger than the land crust?
What is because it is continuously being destroyed and remade at boundaries?
What are the three parts of the mantle called?
What is the lithosphere, asthenosphere, and deep mantle?
What landforms are made at convergent boundaries?
What is trenches and/or volcanic arc islands?
What do Earth's plates move on top of?
What is a layer of soft, solid rock called the mantle?
Where are most fossils found?
What is in hard, solid rock on land?
What is the Geologic Time Scale used for?
What is to organize and explain Earth's rock history?
The deep mantle is under intense pressure, which prevents it from doing what?
What is melting?
What landforms are made at divergent boundaries?
What is mid-ocean ridges and rift valleys?
What happens to rock at a divergent plate boundary?
What is the soft, solid rock from the mantle rises, hardens, and adds new solid rock to the plates' edges?
Which fossil discovery helped support the idea of connected continents?
What is the Mesosaurus fossils?
What is the deepest part of the ocean, located in the Mariana Trench?
What is the Challenger Deep?