Science
What is atmosphere?
the layer of gases that surround Earth.
What is mantle?
It is the layer of Earth's interior below the crust.
What causes folded mountains to form?
When a continental plate is compressed
Mantle.
What is Faults?
Deep crack in Earth's surface.
(Hill, Mountain, river, valley, ocean, canyon, lake, or bay)
What is Pangaea?
Pangaea is a supercontinent.
What is magma?
Magma is a hot, melted rock.
What are outer core and inner core made out of?
The outer core is made out of liquid metal and inner core is made out of solid metal.
What is shear?
Is when one plate rubs past another plate.
What are some adaptations that deep-sea animals have?
They can see in the dark, they can survive in the freezing temperature, and they can live without eating for a long time.
Why do plates move around?
Because they are resting on a layer of the almost melted rock (the mantle), it is slippery.
What causes fault-block mountains to form?
What is compressed.
a squeezing or a pushing together of the crust.
What are the 2 crust?
Oceanic crust and continental crust.
Which layer makes up all the Earth's bodies of water, solid and liquid?
hydrosphere
What is the difference of magma and mantle?
Mantle is almost melted rock and magma is a melted rock.
What causes the continents to move around?
When the sea floor is spreading.
What is folded mountains?
when a continental plate is compressed.
What is core?
It is a layer that is the center part of Earth and it is the hottest part.
Explain the Theory of Continental Drift.
Alfred Wegener thought that millions of years ago, Earth's continents were joined together, but as time passed, some force moved them apart.
What is crust?
The rocky layer of Earth's surface.
What is an example of fault-block mountain and folded mountain?
Ex of fault-block mountain: Sierra Nevada.
Ex of folded mountain: Himalayas.