How was the Earth Formed?
The energy of movement is called this.
What is kinetic energy?
This is the outermost layer of the compositional layers. We live on it.
The theory of plate tectonics was once called _____________ _____________ before science could prove tectonic plates.
What is continental drift?
A plate boundary is where plates _______.
What is meet?
True or False: Tsunamis can go as fast as 500 mph.
What is true?
The energy something gains when it is off the ground.
What is potential energy?
There are two of these in the physical layers of earth, and only one in the compositional layers.
What is the core? (physical: inner and outer core, compositional: core)
This was the name of the giant super continent.
What is Pangaea?
This type of plate boundary pulls apart.
What is divergent?
Volcanoes and earthquakes generally happen near each other and along ___________ ____________.
What is plate boundaries?
Collisions that formed the planet __________ the earth.
What is heated?
Scientists can get samples from the mantel when this natural disaster occurs.
What is a volcanic eruption?
The __________ moves the plates.
What is the mantle or asthenosphere?
This type of plate moves past like cars on a highway.
What is transform?
Japan is one of the most recorded countries when it comes to seismic activity. This is because it is ________________________________________________________________ and ______________________________________.
What is close to the ocean and plate boundaries?
True or false: gravity attracted clumps of dust and material together which formed planets.
What is true?
What is the middle of the physical layers of earth?
What is the mesospher?
The mantle is moved by ________________________ __________.
What is convection currents?
This type of plate collides.
What is convergent?
A _________________ ___________ is where convergent boundaries slip under each other and create volcanoes.
What is subduction zone?
The earth is this old.
What is 14 billion years old?
The physical layers of earth are made up of ________________ and the compositional layers of earth are made up of _________________.
What is rocks and chemicals?
This is the number of plates located on earth.
What is 7 major plates and 8 minor plates?
Convergent boundaries create the following two landforms.
What is mountains and volcanoes?
The 2011 earthquake in Japan that later caused a tsunami was the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan at a ___________ magnitude.
What is a 9.0?