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.
What is four
100
Created the Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
100

The name of plate tectonic movement where plates move away from each other

What is a divergent plate movement

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 name of plate tectonic movement where plates move towards each other

What is convergent plate movement

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

the name of the dinosaur we discussed in class about pangea

What is Mesosaurus 

300

The name of plate tectonic movement where plates slide past each other

What is any transform plate movement

300
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
What is earthquakes
400

the heat transfer method that moves heat in the mantle

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 this many millions of years ago
What is around 250 million years ago
400
This is the mechanism (what causes) the plates to move
What is convection cycles in the mantle
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
Continental Drift Theory was not accepted because it did not explain this
What is how the continents moved
500

The reason why earthquakes occur-plate movement?

What is transform movement

500

Who is the winner of the NL West (Baseball)

Who is the dodgers

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