Plate Tectonics 1
What is the outermost layer of the Earth's surface called?
the crust
There are 3 pieces of evidences that support Wegener's Theory of continental drift. Name one.
Fossil record, continent shapes, and rock layers
What type of energy transfer uses direct contact?
Give an example
Conduction
When this material reaches the surface of the Earth it is called this.
Lava
What natural disaster occurs because of plate movement?
volcanoes or earthquakes
What is the process when oceanic crust sinks below continental crust?
Subduction
What plate boundary produces sea-floor spreading?
Divergent
Super Continent that scientists believe existed and evidence of continental drift.
Pangea
What layer of Earth is the only liquid layer?
Outer Core
What happens when a continental plate converges with a continental plate?
Mountain building/ uplift
What geographical feature is caused under water at a divergent boundary in the Atlantic Ocean?
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
joke! One tectonic plate bumped into another and said:
sorry, my fault!
This layer of the earth is solid metal due to pressure.
Inner Core
Movement of matter caused by differences in density and temperature.
Convection
This person supported Wegners continental drift and founded the seafloor spreading theory
Hess
What layer of earth do tectonic plates sit on? This layer is below the lithosphere
Asthenosphere
What is the process called when one plate slides under another.
What features are formed name two
Subduction
Trench, volcanoes,