Vocabulary
Structure of the Earth
Continental Drift Theory
Plate Tectonics
Plate boundary
100
The thinnest layer of the Earth
What is the crust
100
There are ______________ main layers of the Earth.
What is four
100
Created the Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
100
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
What is a plate boundary
100
The Himalayan mountains are the result of a ___________________________ boundary.
What is convergent boundary
200
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface
What is tectonic plates.
200
The thickest layer of the Earth
What is the mantle.
200
Evidence of matching animal fossils from two separate continents _____________________ and _____________________
What is Africa and South America
200
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary and ___________________ occurs here where new ocean floor is formed.
What is divergent boundary; sea-floor spreading
200
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
What his earthquake
300
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart
What is the Continental Drift Theory
300
Plates float on top of the _______________________.
What is the asthenosphere ( upper mantle)
300
Evidence of tropical plants were found on this continent
What is Antarctica
300
Name four of the major plates
What is any of the following North American plate, South American plate, Eurasian Plate, Indoaustralia plate, African plate, Antarctica plate
300
What is Transform boundary
400
States that youngest rocks of ocean floor are at divergin boundaries, moving outward
What is seafloor spreading
400
The inner core is made up of what material?
What is iron and nickel.
400
The earth was once a super continent called......
What is the Pangea?
400
This is the mechanism (what causes) the plates to move
What is convection currents in the mantle
400
Subduction zone happens at this boundary
What is convergent Boundary
500
Although the hottest layer of the Earth, this layer is solid metal
What is the inner core
500
The Earth's crust is thinnest under the _____________________ and thickest under the _____________________.
What is thinnest under the ocean and thickest under the continents.
500
Continental Drift Theory was not accepted because it did not explain this
What is how the continents moved
500
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)
500
What is divergent Boundary.