Vocabulary
Structure of the Earth
Continental Drift Theory
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
100
The thinnest layer of the Earth
What is the crust
100

There are ______________ main layers of the Earth.

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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

Define a 'divergent boundary' & draw a diagram

A type of plate boundary where two tectonic plates are moving away from each other.

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 is Pangea? 

Pangaea is the name given to the supercontinent that existed approximately 335 to 175 million years ago, according to the Continental Drift theory.

300

Define a 'convergent boundary' & draw a diagram

A type of plate boundary where two tectonic plates are moving toward each other

300
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
What is earthquakes
400
The name of the type of 'currents' that are responsible for the movement of the tectonic plates (hint - involves heating & cooling!)

What is Convection Currents

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

Pangaea existed how many millions of years ago?

What is around 250 million years ago

400

Dine a 'transform boundary' & draw a diagram. 

A type of plate boundary where two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally,

400
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ____________________ boundary.
What is a transform 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

What role did fossil evidence play in the Continental Drift theory?

Fossils of identical or closely related species were found on continents that are now separated by vast oceans. This indicated that these continents were once connected.

500
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)
500
Explain whether the Brisbane Lions were robbed during the 2023 AFL Grand Final. Justify your answer.

Absolutely! 😂

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