Layers of the Earth
The only liquid layer of the Earth.
What is the Outer Core?
The name of the land mass when all the continents were connected.
What is Pangea?
Convergent boundaries for these under the ocean.
What is a trench?
Convergent boundaries form these landforms.
What is a mountain range?
The layer that has continents and oceans
He discovered Pangea.
Alfred Wegner
The sphere that holds all the non-living soil, ground, minerals and rocks on Earth.
What is the Geosphere?
Divergent boundaries cause this in the ocean.
Divergent boundaries form this type of landform.
What is a rift valley?
The layer that holds molten rock.
What is the mantle?
The type of boundary that causes plates to collide.
What is a conversion boundary?
The sphere that holds all living plants, animals, and organisms on Earth.
The type of rock that makes up the ocean floor.
This boundary causes earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary?
The layer made of solid nickel and iron.
What is the inner core?
What is a divergent boundary?
The layer that holds all the gases on Earth?
This is the cause of the mid-oceanic ridge.
Rivers carry nutrients and minerals to lakes through this process.
What is erosion?
These layers make up the Lithosphere.
What is the crust and the upper mantle?
This causes the plates to move.
What is convection currents?
The number of layers in the atmosphere.
What is 5?
This is the material that seeps from the mantle to form the ocean floor.
What is magma?
A big wave caused by the pressure build up between two plates in the ocean due to an earthquake.
What is tsunami?