Blue
Green
Pink
Yellow
Orange
100
Made of heavy basalt and found under our oceans.
What is oceanic crust
100
A plate boundary where two plates slide horizontally past each other.
What is a transform boundary
100
The theory that Earth's tectonic plates move because of convection currents in the mantle.
What is plate tectonics
100
A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary
100
Made of light granite found on our continents.
What is continental crust
200
A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
What is a convergent boundary
200
Movement of a fluid caused by temperature differences in the mantle.
What are convection currents
200
The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor.
What is sea floor spreading
200
Solid iron and nickel in the center of earth.
What is the inner core
200
Deep valleys along the ocean floor through which ocean crust slowly sinks toward the mantle.
What is a deep ocean trench
300
Layer of hot material between Earth's crust and core.
What is the mantle
300
The undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced at a DIVERGENT plate boundary.
What is the mid ocean ridge
300
The layer of earth made of liquid metals that surrounds the solid inner core.
What is the outer core
300
Vibrations that travel through Earth carrying energy from an earthquake.
What are seismic waves
300
The layer of rock that forms the Earth's outer surface.
What is the crust
400
The study of planet earth.
What is geology
400
At and Transform Boundary, where two plates slip past each other what geologic event is common there.
What is an earthquake
400
At a divergent boundary where two plates move apart, what would you expect to see being created?
What is new sea floor
400
At a convergent boundary where a continental plate and an oceanic plate collide with each other, what geologic event would you expect to see?
What is a volcano
400
At a convergent boundary where two continental plates collide what is being created?
What are mountains
500
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of what type of plate boundary?
What is a divergent boundary
500
Which state has a transform boundary along its coast?
What is California
500
What is the name of the place where a plate sinks back into the mantle?
What is a trench
500
An oceanic plate sinks into the mantle because it is more ____________ than a continental plate.
What is dense
500
The Himalaya's, a mountain range in India, is currently growing at about an inch a year. This is an example of which type of plate boundary?
What is convergent boundary
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