Vocabulary
The name of the supercontinent found by Alfred Wegener.
What is Pangaea?
This layer of the Earth contains the only living organisms in the planet.
What is the crust?
The type of boundary where plates are moving apart.
What is divergent?
This factor has caused the most changes in the Earth's surface throughout history.
What is a movement of tectonic plates?
The main ingredients in rock formation.
What are minerals?
The thickest layer of the Earth
What is the mantle.
Most volcanoes and earthquakes are formed here.
What is at plate boundaries?
The material circulation beneath the crust that moves the crustal plates.
What is convection currents?
True or False: All rocks can become sedimentary.
What is true?
A break in the Earth's crust where earthquakes occur.
What is a fault?
Plates float on top of the _______________________.
What is the asthenosphere
Compare transform boundaries and divergent boundaries.
What is transform boundaries slide past each other while divergent boundaries move away from each other?
These are formed at subduction zones.
What are volcanoes?
This is what needs to be applied in order for metamorphic rocks to be created.
What are heat and pressure?
The theory that the continents were once a super continent.
What is Continental Drift?
The rigid part of the Earth including the crust and the upper mantle (makes up the plates of the Earth)
What is the lithosphere?
This type of boundary is where subduction happens.
What is convergent boundary?
We live on this tectonic plate (name it).
What is the North American plate?
Material (sand, gravel, mud) that is transported and deposited by wind, water, gravity or ice.
What is sediments?
What is responsible for volcanic action and mountain ranges?
What are tectonic plates?
The Earth's crust is thinnest under the _____________________ and thickest under the _____________________.
What is thinnest under the ocean and thickest under the continents?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
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?
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This is required for an metamorphic rock to become igneous.
What is magma is melted and cooled in a volcano?