Tectonic Plates 1
In this type of plate boundary, plates are moving apart
What are divergent plate boundaries
What is the thinnest layer of the earth?
What is the crust
What is the name of the theory that states the earth's crust is made of large sections moving over the mantle.
What is plate tectonic theory
The pacific plate is known for?
What is the ring of fire?
What specifically lies directly beneath the earth's crust
What is the mantle
ONE evidence of the state of the earth's Interior
What are seismic waves, material, and condition of the earth's interior.
What is the most inner layer of the earth
DOUBLE
What is the core (consisting of the inner and outer core)
What are the two types of igneous rocks?
What is extrusive and intrusive?
What is one evidence to support the plate tectonic theory
DOUBLE
What is-
- the landmasses fit like a jigsaw puzzle
- Fossils
- Volcanoes and Mountain building
- Seismic activity
Where do convection currents occurs?
What is the mantle
What causes the plates to move?
What is convection currents in the mantle
What oozes out of the earth when plates diverge?
What is magma
What are the three different rock types?
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
Plate boundary where no volcanic activity is present
What is Transform
Transform boundaries create this
What is earthquakes
Plate boundary where plates slide against one another moving in the same direction at different rates or different directions
What is Transform or Conservative
When a plate slides under another
What is subduction
Name the two different types of crust
DOUBLE
What is oceanic and continental
double (Oceanic SIMA and Continental (SIAL)
A continental plate converging with a continental plate creates this
What are mountains
What are the some of the largest mountains created be convergent plate boundaries?
What are the Himalayas
DOUBLE
What do oceanic to continental convergent plate boundaries create?
What is volcanoes on land and trenches in the ocean
Where do tectonic plates interact?
What is Boundaries
What is the name of the material found in the layer under the crust?
What is magma or molten rock?