Earth's Layers
Continental Drift
Plate Tectonics
Faults
Volcanoes
100
The outside layer of the Earth that is least dense of all the layers
What is the crust
100
The Continental Drift theory was proposed by this person in 1912.
What is Alfred Wegener
100
Three kinds of plate boundaries
What are convergent, divergent, and transform
100
These are the three types of faults
What are strike-slip faults, normal faults, and reverse faults
100
Magma is called this once it is on the surface
What is lava
200
The inner layer that has two parts and is the heaviest and most dense
What is the core
200
The same rock patterns were found on these five continents/countries
What are South America, India, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia
200
The place where two plates collide
What is a convergent boundary
200
The place where faults usually occur
What is a plate boundary
200
This is the term used to describe what change volcanoes make to land
What is constructive
300
This is the middle layer and is the thickest of all the layers
What is the mantle
300
Tropical plant remains were found on this continent
What is Antarctica
300
This is formed when a surface spreads apart on a divergent boundary
What is a rift valley
300
The change in the shape of the crust is called this
What is deformation
300
This is another name for where volcanoes are found along the Pacific Ocean
What is the ring of fire
400
The crust and part of the upper mantle
What is the lithosphere
400
All of the continents were combined into one super continent called this
What is Pangaea
400
This is the place where two plates slide past each other in opposite directions
What is transform boundary
400
Reverse faults are cause by this
What is compression
400
The inside of a volcano where magma is stored
What is the magma chamber
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