Earth
What is the center of our Earth called, and what type of matter is it?
Inner core, Solid
Who proposed Continental Drift Theory and when?
Alfred Wegener, 1915
What type of plate boundaries collide and create mountains?
What is the area of our Earth where earthquakes and volcanoes are very prone to happen?
The Ring of Fire
Rust on a car is an example of which type of Weathering?
Chemical
What is the Mantle made up of, and what process happens in the Mantle?
Made up of Magma, Convection Currents
What was the supercontinent on Earth called?
Pangea
What types of plate boundaries spread apart and create rift valleys?
Divergent plates
Which waves arrive first during an earthquake? P waves or S waves?
P waves
The process of breaking down rock into smaller pieces is?
Weathering
What layer of our Earth is the thickest?
Mantle
What was one evidence that Alfred Wegener used?
Puzzle
Fossils
Matching Mountain Ranges
What type of plate boundaries slide past one another and create earthquakes?
Transform plates
Which waves cause more damage during an earthquake? P waves or S waves
S waves
What is the idea that in rock layers, the oldest is at the bottom and the youngest is on top?
Law of Superposition
What are the two types of Crust?
Continental and Oceanic
What process in the ocean gave us more evidence that the continents spread apart?
Sea Floor Spreading
If two continental plates collide with each other, what will be created?
Mountains
What is a super hot, fast-moving cloud of ash, gas, and rock that rushes down the side of a Volcano?
Pyroclastic Flow
What are the names of the two faults that still affect Illinois?
New Madrid and Wabash Valley
What is our Inner Core made up of?
Iron and Nickel
What is the process in the Mantle that drives the movement of continents?
Convection Currents
If two oceanic plates spread away from one another, what can be created?
Mid Ocean Ridge.
What kind of eruptions come form a composite volcano?
Explosive
Who sings our Continental Drift song?