Layers of the Earth
Types of Boundaries
Sea-floor Spreading and Continental Drift
Major Plates
Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, and Convection Currents
100
Names of the 4 layers of the Earth
What is the crust, the mantle, the inner and outer core
100
Names of the 4 types of boundaries
What is divergent, convergent-subduction, convergent collision, and transform sliding boundaries
100
The person who proposed about the continents moving was because of sea-floor spreading
Who is Herman Hess
100
The number of major playes
What is 7
100
Where the crust and upper mantle meet
What is the lithosphere
200
The thickest layer of the Earth
What is the mantle
200
This boundarie's features are folded mountains
What is a convergent collision boundary
200
The person who proposed about continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener
200
Names of 3 major plates
What is Eurasian, North and South American, Indo-Australian, Nazca, Antartic, African, and Pacific
200
The semi-rigid part of the middle mantle
What is the asthenosphere
300
The layer that has two types of rocks
What is the crust
300
This boundarie's features are earthquake zones and fault zones
What is a transform sliding boundary
300
Sea-floor spreading is caused by
What is convection currents in the asthenosphere
300
Lithispheric plates ride on the
What is the asthenosphere
300
Is caused by very hot metals in the deepest prat of the mantle
What are convection currents
400
The layer that has temperatures and pressures so high that it squeezes metals
What is the inner core
400
This boundarie's features are volcanic mountain ranges and trenches
What is a convergent-subduction boundary
400
The reason why continental drift was not accepted
What is Wegener couldn't explain what force that was strong enough to move the plates
400
What occurs along plate boundaries (name two)
What is earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountain building, and oceanic trench formation
400
The convection currents' repeated cycle
What is rising, cooling, and sinking again
500
The layer that is 1,400 miles thick, made of liquid, iron and nickel
What is the outer core
500
This boundarie's features are rift vallys and Mid-Atlantic mountains and volcanoes
What is a divergent boundary
500
The two people that discovered an underwater mountain
What is the two physicist Ewing and Heezen
500
What makes up the Earth's outer shell
What is major and minor plates
500
What flows like asphalt under heavy weight
What is asthenosphere
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