Vocabulary
Magma
what is molten or melted rock
What is Mrs. Buechel's favorite color?
what is purple ?
Type of boundary where two plates come together or collide.
What is a convergent boundary.
There are ______________ main layers of the Earth.
what is four ?
What forces causes the plates to move?
What are convection currents in the mantle.
Convection currents
what is magma circulates to move the tectonic plates
What is the capital of Wisconsin?
what is madison ?
Boundary where two plates pull apart from each other.
What is a divergent boundary.
Plates float on top of the _______________________.
What is the asthenosphere
Where does subduction occur?
What are deep ocean trenches.
Lithosphere
what is the tectonic plates are on this layer
how many continents are there ?
what is 7 ?
Type of boundary where two plates slip past each other in opposite directions.
What is a transform boundary.
The thickest layer of the Earth
What is the mantle.
Type of boundary where two plates slip past each other in opposite directions.
What is a transform boundary.
Subduction zone
what is crust sinks down into magma ?
what continent do we live on ?
what is North America
The most dense type of lithospheric plate
What is oceanic plate.
How far do plates move in a year
1-10 cm
What type of plate boundary formed the Himalayan mountains?
What is a continental to continental convergent boundary.
What is the sea floor spreading?
What is the oldest oceanic crust gets recycle to create new oceanic crust?
What is Mrs. Buechel's dog's name?
what is Oscar ?
When two plates collide what determines what plate will stay on top?
What is density.
The rigid part of the Earth including the crust and the upper mantle (makes up the plates of the Earth)
What is the lithosphere
what is one piece of evidence that supports continental drift ?
what is the fossil of plants or animal , rocks, mountain ranges or fits like a jigsaw puzzle