Plate Boundaries
In this type of boundary, plates are moving towards each other.
What is convergent boundaries
In this type of plate boundary, plates are moving apart
What is divergent plate boundary
What is the thinnest crust of the earth?
What is the crust
In this type of boundary, plates slide against each other
What is the transform plate boundary
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 Tectonics
Where do tectonic plates interact?
What is the mantle
Which layer of the mantle is directly below the crust?
What is the lithosphere
What are the two layers of the mantle?
What is the lithosphere and asthenosphere
What is Pangea?
What is all the continents fit together in one big landmass
What is the mid-ocean/mid-atlantic ridge?
What is the convergent boundary where new seafloor is created
What happen to magma when it cools down?
What is igneous rock
What direction do convection currents move?
What is up and down
What causes the plates to move?
What is the convection currents
What oozes out of the Earth when the tectonic plates diverge?
What is magma
What coast in the United States has a tectonic plate boundary?
What is the west coast
Transform boundaries create this
What is Earthquakes
Divergent plate boundaries create this
What is underwater ridges/new sea floor
What is a tectonic plate?
What is a piece of solid rock that lives under the crust and moves in the lithosphere
Who discovered Pangea?
What is Alfred Wegener
Which part of the mantle is closest to the core?
What is the asthenosphere
A continental plate converging with a oceanic plate creates these
What is a mountain and underwater trench
What is the process called when new seafloor is created?
What is the subduction process
Which tectonic plate is most dense?
What is the oceanic plate
Who discovered seafloor spreading?
Who is Henry Hess
Describe the cycle tectonic plates go through?
What is... the teacher will decide. Key words needed to be used: lithosphere, asthenosphere, sinks, and floats