Plates
Layers of the Earth
Cause & Effect of Boudaries
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Continental Drift
100
Plates float and move on the Asthenosphere?
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
100
Crust,mantle,outer core and inner core.
What are the 4 layers of the earth?
100
Divergent, Convergent and Transform
What are the type of boundary's?
100
Where the less dense plate slides under the more dense plate.
What is a subduction zone?
100
Alfred Wegnar
Who was the person that realized continents drifted?
200
Divergent, Convergent, and Transform
What are three ways plates can interact?
200
Lithosphere
What is the 2nd layer of the earth?
200
Cause: Collisions and Subductions Effect: Mountains
What is the cause and effect of a convergent boundary?
200
Subduction zone and volcanoes.
What happens when a oceanic plates converges with continental plate?
200
Once upon a time the continents were one big "super continent" and then the continents are moved.
What was Alfred Wegener's theory?
300
Divergent Boundary
What is it called when plates are separating?
300
Asthenosphere
What is the bendy, plastic layer?
300
Effects: Earthquakes, faults, volcanoes, and rift valleys
What is the effects of a divergent boundary?
300
Plates below the continents
What is a continental plate?
300
He did not know how the moved
What didn't anyone believe Alfred's theory?
400
Convergent Boundary
What is called when plates are colliding?
400
The crust and part of the upper mantle
What is the lithosphere?
400
San Andres fault
What is an example of a transform boundary in Calofornia?
400
Plates move around on top of the mantle like rafts.
What do plates do?
400
They discovered how the continents moved.
What happened Alfred died?
500
Transform Boundary
What is it called when two plates slide plates past each other?
500
Plates below the oceans
What are ocean plates?
500
Island Volcanoes
What happens when an Oceanic plate hits a Oceanic plate?
500
Oceanic and Continental.
What are the two types of plates?
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