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

Fossils of the same animals were found on continents now separated by oceans, suggesting the continents were once  _______________.

 What is connected (or together)?

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

The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary 

What is divergent boundary

200

When one plate slides under another plate, it is called this process.

Answer: What is subduction?

300
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart
What is the Continental Drift Theory
300

Heat moves through the mantle in swirling motions called these currents.

Answer: What are convection currents?

300

According to continental drift, Earth’s solid outer shell is broken into these slowly shifting pieces.
 

What are tectonic plates?

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

Rocks made from magma

What is Igneous Rocks

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

The name of the giant supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago.

What is Pangaea?

400

What is the transfer of heat in the Earyh

What is convection currents

400

When water vapor cools and turns into liquid droplets, this part of the water cycle is happening.


Answer: What is condensation?

500

This word refers to melted rock found beneath Earth’s surface.

Answer: What is magma?

500

This is the thin, rocky outer layer of Earth where all life exists.

Answer: What is the crust?

500

True or False: Continents move only a few centimeters per year—about as fast as your fingernails grow.

Answer: What is True?

500

Earthquakes most often happen at these breaks in Earth’s crust where plates slide past each other.

Answer: What are faults?

500

Earth has seasons because _______. 

What is the tilt of Earth's axis?

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