Earth's Interior and rocks
Rock Cycle
Miscellaneous
Plate tectonics
Landforms
100
Thinnest layer of Earth
Crust
100
How are mountains destroyed?
Through weathering and erosion
100
How is a Scientific Theory different from a Scientific Law?
Scientific Theory is an explanation of how or why something in nature works while a law explains what will happen.
100
Heat from what layer of earth creates the convection currents in the mantle?
Core or inner core
100
Mountain formed from volcanic eruptions. Most found near subduction zones at convergent boundaries either oceanic - oceanic or oceanic - continental
Volcano
200
Layer E
Inner Core
200
What type of rock would you expect to find near a volcano?
Igneous
200
What must always be present in order to form a true scientific explanation?
Empirical Evidence
200
What type of plate boundary does the picture show. Include types of crust.
Continental continental convergent boundary
200
The motion of tectonic plates can cause both slow and rapid changes. What's an example of a rapid change?
Earthquake and/or Volcanic Eruption
300
Name of rock that is formed from heat and pressure underground.
Metamorphic rock
300
What type of rock would you expect to find deep in the mountains between these two converging plates?
Metamorphic rock
300
What theory does this image depict?
Theory of continental drift or plate tectonics
300
Name the type of plate boundary including the types of crust.
Oceanic Oceanic Divergent Boundary
300
What landforms are present at convergent boundaries where one plate subducts under another plate?
Volcanic mountains and or oceanic trenches
400
The densest layer of Earth's interior
The core (inner core)
400
The destruction of mountains can lead to which process/event in the rock cycle?
creation of sedimentary rock from the sediments weathered from mountains.
400
Terms used to describe the removal of large amounts of forests. This can then lead to greater erosion.
Deforestation
400
Give one piece of evidence that Wegner provided for his theory of continental drift.
Matching fossils
Matching rock formations
400
Collective name of the tectonic plate activity shown here.
Pacific Ring of Fire or Ring of Fire
500
Place the order of Earth's interior from innermost to outermost.
inner core, outer core, lower mantle, upper mantle, crust
500
What process recycles oceanic crust back into the mantle?
Subduction
500
True of False: The Theory of Continental Drift was proven false with evidence of sea-floor spreading at divergent boundaries.
False. The theory was not discarded but plate tectonics better explains the change in continents.
500
The San Andreas Fault in California is what type of plate boundary?
Transform Boundary
500
What are the names of the two converging plates that have created the Andes mountains?
Nazca plate and South American Plate
