Layers
Plate Boundaries
Earth Beginnings
Rocks
Random
100

Name the layer labeled "B".

What is mantle?

100

Name this Plate Boundary.

What is Divergent Boundary?

100

Which of the following is a hypothesis that explains Earth’s plate movement?

  1. Subduction

  2. Continental drift

  3. Convection current

  4. Big Bang

What is Continental Drift?

100

True or False: rocks on the continental crust are older than rocks on oceanic crust.


What is true?

100

Which of the following is not a layer of Earth?

  1. Crust

  2. Mantle

  3. Convection

  4. Core

What is convection?

200

Name the layer of Earth marked by "D".

What is inner core?

200

Name the plate boundary.

What is Transform boundary?

200

The name of the supercontinent that was hypothesized by Alfred Wegener.

What is Pangea?

200

True or False: Mid-ocean ridges exist far from the edge of tectonic plates.

What is false?

200

It is thought that the age of Earth is

What is 4.5 billions years old?

300

Name the layer labeled "A".

What is crust?

300

Name this plate boundary. 

What is convergent boundary?

300

The name of the ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Alfred Wegener hypothesized existed millions of years ago.

What is Panthalassa?

300

The type of rock that makes up the continental crust.

What is granite?

300

Deep depressions in the seafloor that are narrow are called

What are trenches?

400

The outer core is __________ and the inner core is _________________.

What is liquid, solid?

400

This downward movement of a plate into the mantle is called

What is subduction?

400

True or False: The magnetic field of Earth has been reversed in history.

What is true?

400

True or False: The crust at the mid-ocean ridge is older and as you move away from the ridge, it is younger.

What is false?

400

Cracks in the crust where it is separating at mid-ocean ridges are called

What are rifts?

500

The continuous chain of underwater volcanic mountains that encircles the globe is called

What is mid-ocean ridge?

500

The friction of plates sliding past one another at transform boundaries can cause

What are Earthquakes?

500

The process used to determine the age of microfossils.

What is carbon dating?

500

Type of sediment that is a result of weathered rock.

What is Lithogenous sediment?

500

Name the 2 specific continents Alfred Wegner thought fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.

What is Africa and South America?

M
e
n
u