Definitions
Earth's Interior
Continental Drift
Plate Boundaries
Other Stuff
100
The supercontinent that broke apart 200 milling years ago
What is Pangea?
100
The hard outer part of the Earth is called
What is the crust
100
The movement of fluids by temperature differences is called...
What is convection?
100
What tectonic event happens most often at Transform Boundaries?
What are earthquakes?
100
At which types of boundaries do trenches form?
What is Oceanic-Continental, Oceanic-Oceanic Convergence
200
A deep canyon in the ocean floor
What is a trench?
200
What are the two types of crust?
What is continental and oceanic?
200
The theory that states the pieces of Earth's crust are in constant slow motion and were once one large landmass.
What is Theory of Continental Drift
200
What is the term for when one plate goes below another?
What is Subduction?
200
You are standing on one plate. It is slowing moving East and it is a transform boundary. What direction is the other plate moving?
What is West?
300
Two plates slide past one another
What is a Transform Boundary
300
What is the outer core made of?
What is liquid iron and nickel?
300
Alfred Wegener found evidence for Continental Drift. What are the three pieces of evidence he found?
What is Landforms, Fossils, Climate Changes (Glaciers)
300
You are standing on an island arc. There are volcanoes. What type of specific boundary are you standing at?
What is Oceanic-Oceanic Convergence?
300
What happens to rock layers when there is compression on both sides of the rock?
What is it becomes folded?
400
Two plates move away from each other
What is a Divergent boundary
400
What is the inner core made out of?
What is solid liquid and iron?
400
Why was Wegener's theory rejects by scientists at first?
What is he did not have an explanation for why the continents moved.
400
You are standing in the Himalayan Mountains, there are very few volcanoes. What plate boundary are you at?
What is Continental-Continental Convergence?
400
What plate boundary will be the start to ocean formation?
What is a divergent boundary?
500
Two plates move toward each other
What is a Convergent Boundary
500
Name the layers of the Earth in order
What is Continental, Oceanic Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core?
500
What causes the movement of the plates?
What is convection currents in the mantle?
500
At the bottom of the ocean there is a divergent boundary. What is the land feature that forms at the boundary?
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
500
What type of plate boundary will have volcanoes and mountain ranges in straight lines on a continent?
What is Oceanic-Continental Convergence?
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