Layers of the Earth
Layers of the Earth cont.
Continental Drift
Deforming the Earth
Faults
100
The outermost, rigid layer of the Earth is ____________
What is the Lithosphere
100
The part of the Earth that is molten
What is outer core
100
Alfred Wegener.
What is Who discovered the continental drift theory?
100
The type of fault in which the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
What is reverse fault?
100
The surface along which rocks break and slide past each other.
What is a fault?
200
The two parts of the lithosphere are...
What is crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle?
200
The part of the Earth on which the tectonic plates move.
What is Asthenosphere?
200
Continents fit like a puzzle and fossils on different continents
What is proof of continental drift?
200
Anticlines, synclines, and monoclines
What are the three types of folds?
200
The blocks of crust on each side of the fault.
What is fault blocks?
300
The plastic layer of the mantle on which pieces of the lithosphere move.
What is Asthenosphere?
300
Seismic waves.
What is the vibrations that occur when earthquakes happen?
300
Sea-floor spreading occurs.
What is mid-ocean ridges.
300
Normal, reverse, and strike-slip.
What are three types of faults?
300
This usually occur when tectonic forces cause tension that pulls rocks apart.
What is Normal fault?
400
The strong lower part of the mantle is the...
What is mesosphere?
400
The three layers of the Earth
What is crust, mantle, and the core
400
The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifiies.
What is sea-floor spreading?
400
The process in which the Earth's crust slowly springs back to its previous elevation.
What is Rebound
400
The hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
What is reverse fault?
500
The inner and outer core.
What are the two parts of the Core.
500
The machine that measures the times at which seismic waves arrive at different distance from an earthquake/
What is seismograph?
500
New crust forms at mid-ocean ridges.
What is How mid-ocean ridges support both continental drift and plate tectonics.
500
A set of deep cracks in the Earth's crust that form when two tectonic plates pull away from each other.
What are rift zones.
500
Forms when opposing forces cause rock to break and move horizontally.
What is strike-slip fault?
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