Vocabulary
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Planets
Moons
Comets, Meteors, Asteroids
100
The Earth's lithosphere is broken into separate sections called this
What are plates?
100
Scientists who study the earth
What is a geologist?
100
This is where magma is pushed through the ocean floor and flows evenly on both sides pushing old rock out of the way to make room for new rock
What is mid-ocean ridge?
100
A shear at a fault causes what to form
What is fault-block mountains?
100
The outermost layer of the Earth
What is the crust?
200
A force that pushes plates into each other.
What is compression
200
The scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
The lithosphere is broken into what is called
What is plates?
200
A stretch or push on plates
What is tension?
200
The lithosphere includes all of this and part of the mantle
What is the crust?
300
This is a break in the Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other
What is a fault?
300
Wegener could prove this
explain what pushes or pulls continents?
300
The asthenosphere is made of?
What is magma?
300
What are folded mountains in Asia
What is the Himalayas?
300
These are the four layers of the earth from the outside to the inside.
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
400
This part of the mantle is made of molten rock or magma
What is the aesthenosphere?
400
What is it called when all continents where together
What is Pangaea
400
Force that pushes plates into each other?
What is compression
400
Fossils found of tropical plants in the Arctic Ocean are evidence for Wegeners hypothesis of this
What is continental drift?
400
The difference between the third and fourth layer
What is the outer core is liquid and the inner core is solid?
500
When two plates twist, tear or push past one another.
What is shear?
500
The 3 evidences that Wegener had to show that continental drift does happen.
What is continents fit like puzzle pieces (landform evidence), fossil evidence and climate change?
500
Formed by magma pushed up in mid-ocean ridge
What is rift valley?
500
This is an example of a fault-block mountain
What is Sierra Nevada?
500
These are the two sections of the mantle's upper layer
What is lithosphere and aesthenosphere?
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