Plate Boundaries
Heat transfer
Earth's layers
Pangea
Volcanoes
100
A Tranform Boundary in California
What is the San Andreas Fault
100
This is the type of Heat Transfer that creates the movement of water in a heated pan
What is Convection
100
This is the liquid layer of the Earth
What is the outer core
100
The concept that shows the Continental's shapes fit together, as in a child's game
What is a puzzle
100
the area around the Pacific Ocean that contains many active volcanoes
What is the Ring of Fire
200
The mountain range in Asia produced by a convergent boundary
What is the Himalayas
200
This type of heat transfer causes the Earth's Tectonic Plates to move
What is Convection
200
The Earth's crust broken into pieces
What are Tectonics Plates
200
The putty-like region that Earth's lithosphere floats
What is asthenosphere
200
a Volcano the erupted in the 1980s in Washington state
What is Mt. St. Helen
300
The geological feature found in the center of a mid-ocean ridge
What is a Rift Valley
300
This type of heat transfer that enables the Sun to warm the Earth surface and atmosphere
What is Radiation
300
This is the location of convection currents that move the Earth's tectonic plates
Where is the Mantle
300
Evidence that rocks near a mid-ocean ridge are younger than those found further away
What is Sea Floor Spreading
300
An example of a Shield Volcano
What is Kilauea in Hawai
400
The type of boundary where the plates slide next to and past one another
What is a Transform Boundary
400
This happens to the density of a a fluid when it decreases in temperature
What is increase
400
This the the thinest layer of the Earth
What is the Crust
400
Evidence for Pangea that located Mesosaurus in South America and Africa
What is Fossil evidence
400
The force behind the creation of the Hawaiian Island chain
What is a hot spot
500
The area where one Ocean Plate slides under a Continental Plate
What is a Subduction Zone
500
This is the reason a stick of wood is the best choice for toasting marshmallows on a fire
What is a poor conductor
500
This is the physical state of Earth's Inner Core
What is Solid
500
The person who created the Hypothesis about Pangea
Who is Alfred Wegener
500
The hot gas and ash that explodes from some volcanoes
What is pyroclastic flow
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