Plate tectonics
What are the broken pieces of the lithosphere
plate tectonics
What is the thickest layer of the earth
The mantle
What is the supercontinent that Alfred Wegner discovered?
Pangea
What plate boundary moves horizontally
Transform
What is it when two plates move toward each other
Convergent boundary
What is the top layer of the mantle?
listhosphere
What is continental drift?
The theory that there was once a super continent, but slowly drifted away
Which way do convergent boundaries move
Towards each other
What layer of the Earth do the plates float on?
The Asthenosphere
What is all the layers of the mantle?
listhosphere,asthenosphere,and lower mantle
What were the three types of evidence that Wegner had to prove his theory of Pangea?
Land features, climate change, and fossils.
What plate boundary moves away from each other
Divergent
What are the edges where the plate tectonics interact with each other?
Plate boundaries
What does convection have to do with the mantle?
Transfers heat by movesment
Did anybody doubt Wegners theory
Yes
What happens during subduction?
Magma rises and it creates a new layer of crust
What is it when there's a fracture in Earth's crust?
A fault
What are all the layers in earth?
crust,mantle,inner core,outercore.
Did Alfred use direct or indirect evidence?
Both
What are the three landforms that Convergent boundaries make?
Trenches, Volcanoes, and Mountain ranges.