Down to the Core

Know your Boundaries

100

What is a continent?

A large landmass

200

If I'm a point or line  where one region ends and another one begins. What am I?

A boundary

300

I believe that once all continents were once joined together in a single land mass and have since drifted who am I?

Alfred Wegener

400

A continent that slowly moved over earth's surface is called what? 

A continental drift

500

I form long chains of mountains that raise up from the ocean floor, what does scientist call me?

Mid ocean ridges

Crusty Crab

100

I'm the otter layer of earth what am I?

The crust

200

I am a mountain that forms earth's crust when molten material, or Maga reaches the surface what am I?

Volcano

300

I come from the mantle I'm a molten mixture of rock forming substances and gas.

What am I? 

Magma

400

I am a volcanos along the coast of North and South America. What am I?

A Ring of Fire

500

Scientist found that mid ocean ridges continually add new material to the ocean floor, what is this process called?

sea- floor spreading

Currents

100

Heat transferred by the movement of fluid is called what?

Convection

200

I am the flow that transfers heat with in a fluid, what am I called?

Convection current

300

I'm known as the super continent and who gave me that name ? 

Pangaea and Wegener

400

If I'm a area where material from deep within earth's mantle rises through the crust and melts from magma

What would  you call me? 

A volcano

500

I'm a trace of a ancient organism that has been preserved in a rock, what am I

A fossil

Hot Spot

100

Name 3 types of heat transfer???

Radiation convection and conduction

200

I transfer energy in rays, what am I? 

radiation

300

If you let me touch, I transfer heat, what am I?

conduction

400

Is this true or false??

I am heat released from the earth's core drives convection currents throughout the crust and volcano 

 False, through the mantle and crust

500

When I reach the surface, what am I called?

lava

Name the Plates

100

If the ocean floor plunges into deep underwater canyons, what are these canyons called??

Deep- ocean trenches

200

I'm the process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep- ocean trench and back into the mantle again what am I called? 

subduction

300

Where pieces of earth's crust diverge on land what forms? 

A rift valley

400

What is carbon film?

thin coating of carbon on a rock

500

I provide evidence of the  activities of ancient organisms what am I? 

Trace Fossils