Vocabulary
Structure of the Earth
Faults!
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
100
The deep areas in the ocean where old crust is destroyed.
What is a trench
100
There are ______________ main layers of the Earth.
What is four
100
What type of Fault is this?
What is a Normal Fault
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
What type of Fault is this?
What is a Strike-Slip Fault
200
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary and this is where seafloor spreading occurs.
What is divergent
200
Hot air or liquid is less ________________ than cool air or liquide
What is dense
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
300
What type of fault is this?
What is a Reverse Fault
300
Name the three types of Plate Boundary
What is Convergent, Divergent, and Transform
300
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
What is earthquakes
400
States that the youngest rocks of ocean floor are at diverging boundaries, moving outward
What is seafloor spreading
400
The rigid part of the Earth including the crust and the upper mantle (makes up the plates of the Earth)
What is the lithosphere
400
What type of stress causes this fault?
What is Tension Stress
400
This is the mechanism (what causes) the plates to move
What is convection currents in the mantle
400
What are 3 features/events that form at convergent continental-continental boundaries?
What are Earthquakes, Faults, and Mountains
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
At what type of Boundary would I find this fault?
What is a Convergent Boundary
500
The three types of convergent boundaries
What is continental-continental, continental-oceanic, and oceanic-oceanic
500
This person used sonar to map the bottom of the ocean and discovered the mid-ocean ridge in the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Harry Hess!