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

Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these

What is a plate boundary

100

What are 2 ways Geologists can date rock stratum?

What is radiometric dating and relative dating.

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

How do we know glaciers used to be in some parts of the earth where they are not now? 

What are glacial landforms.

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
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 the Nebular Hypothesis?

What is the process of solar system formation causing the collapse of the nebula and creation of a star as believed my secular scientists.

400
States that youngest rocks of ocean floor are at divergin 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

Secular Geologists believe 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

How do fossils in rocks worldwide corroborate the Food?

What is a catastrophic event such as the flood would allow the fossils to be buried quickly enough to form.

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 are the 4 main periods of Earth's History as represented by the Earth's Layers?

What is Creation

Time between Creation & the Flood

The Flood

Post Flood

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