Earth Layers
Plate Boundaries
Plate Tectonics
True or False
Potpourri
100

Name the four layers of the earth.

Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Core

100
How many types of plate boundaries are there?
3
100

Do Earth's plates move fast or slow?

SLOW.

100
True or False. The number of continents is the same as the number of plates.
False.
100

What is Ms. Johnson's favorite Disney movie?

Aladdin (Runner up: Hercules)

200
Which layer is the thinnest
Crust
200

How do each of the plate boundaries move?

C- move together

D- move apart

T- slide past one another

200
What causes the plates to move
Convection currents in the mantle
200
True or False. The contents first started moving apart roughly 250 million years ago.
True
200

What is Ms. Johnson's comfort food?

Boring old spaghetti

300

What layer does the convection occur in?

Mantle

300

Plate boundary responsible for fault lines?

Transform plate boundary

300

What has caused the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge to form?

Divergent plate boundaries

300
True or False Australia is considered a stable content because it is in the middle of a plate.
True
300

How long is the drive from NJ to Lincoln University- Missouri?

About 16 hours

400

How hot are the layers?

Crust: 20-25 C

Mantle: 2000-4000 C

Outer Core: 4500 C

Core: 5000 C


400

What type of plate boundary is responsible for the Himalayas'

Convergent boundaries.

400
What is Pangaea?
The original supercontinent before the continents broke up.
400
True or False Australia could never of had a volcano
False. Hotspots
400

How long is the drive from NJ to Virginia State University?

About 6 hours (if you leave around 1 am, you can cut it to about 5.5 hours or so)

500

What causes the core to be composed of solid metal despite the high temperature?

The amount of pressure from all the other layers of earth

500

Subduction only occurs at what type of plate boundary.

Convergent boundaries.

500

Name a type of evidence used to prove the theory of plate tectonics.

Fossil records

500
True or False There are ancient sea creature fossils found at the tp of the Himalayas
True.
500

Name one of the ten personal and family pets combined that Ms. Johnson has had.

OoooOooo fun! Abu, Balthazar, Alonso, Kiba, Gizmo, Knight, Ginger, Yuki, Ronin (Pooey), Sweet Pea

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