Plates & Layers
These moving sections of the crust & upper mantle fit together like a giant jigsaw puzzle.
What are tectonic plates?
This shaking of the ground that occurs at a transform boundary.
What is an earthquake?
The name of the single landmass on Earth that broke apart 200 million years ago.
What is pangaea?
This type of rock forms from compacted or cemented sediment.
What is sedimentary rock?
The state that Ms.Reynolds is from
What is Vermont?
This process forms deep ocean trenches and occurs when one tectonic plate sinks beneath another.
What is subduction?
Two types of boundaries where volcanoes form
What are convergent and divergent?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Continental crust is made of _______________
Oceanic crust is made of __________________
What is granite, basalt
What are Rhode Island or Florida
Draw & name the three types of boundaries
Divergent, Convergent, Transform
This underwater mountain chain forms at oceanic/oceanic divergent boundaries.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
Draw and name the process that is causing plates to move.
What are convection currents.
This type of rock forms from heat and pressure
What is metamorphic?
The number of siblings that Mr. Fisher has
What is 8?
Plates grow at ____________ boundaries and get smaller at ___________ boudaries.
divergent, convergent
This ocean is currently growing in size because of sea floor spreading (at a mid-ocean ridge).
What is the Atlantic?
Name two types of living things that we found fossils of on multiple continents.
Reptiles and plants
These types of rocks form from melting and crystallizing.
What are igneous rocks?
What state did Ms.Reynolds go to college in
What is Indiana?
This rigid layer includes Earth’s crust and the uppermost mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
This deep feature forms on land when two continental plates pull apart.
What is a rift valley?
Name 5 pieces of evidence for continental drift.
Fossils, puzzle piece, glaciers, mountains, rock layers
Continental and oceanic crusts are both made of this type of rock
What is igneous?
The high school that Ms.O'Connell went to (booo)
What is CVU?