Alfred Wegener
Earth's Layers
Plate Boundaries
100

Alfred Wegener was famous for creating this theory.

What is the theory of continental drift?

100

The layer closest to us right now.

What is the crust?

100

The number of general boundaries that exist.

What is 3?

200

Wegener was born in this decade.

What is the 1880s?

200

The layer that sits above the outer core.

What is the mantle?

200

Plates move away from each other in this type of plate boundary.

What is divergent boundary?

300

Wegener has this profession after he graduated from Freidrich Wilhelms University.

What is a meteorologist?

300

The depth (in miles) of the mantle.

What is approximately 1800 miles?

300

Plates have this action in a convergent boundary.

What is the plates are moving towards each other and collide?

400

The reaction to Wegener's theory was in this manner.

What is poorly or doubtful? (No one believed him)

400

Iron is the most abundant element in this layer.

What is the inner core?

400

This process occurs in a convergent boundary, where plates slide under another plate.

What is subduction?

500

Wegener died on his expedition in this country.

What is Greenland?

500

This is the most abundant element in the mantle.

What is Oxygen?

500

This happens in a transform boundary.

What is the plates slide beside each other horizontally?