Vocabulary
Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water.
What is the outer layer or crust?
Earth's outer layer is divided into sections called ____________.
What are plates?
When two plates move away from each other?
What is divergent?
True or False- At convergent plate boundaries new plate from underneath fills in the gap that was created by the plates moving apart.
False,
New edges of plate are added at divergent boundaries.
The layer of soft, solid rock underneath the Earth's plates
What is the mantle?
The plates of Earth's outer layer __________________.
What is move?
When two plates move toward each other?
What is convergent?
True or False- Some continents are no longer touching because earthquakes and volcanoes pushed them apart.
False-
Continents are always moving slowly due to movement in the mantle.
An underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
Earth's plates move on top of a soft, solid layer called the __________________.
What is the mantle?
Volcanoes and earthquakes occur at this type of boundary?
What is both convergent and divergent boundaries?
True or False- Plates were pushed far apart by earthquakes.
FALSE-
Plate motion causes earthquakes.
a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
What is a trench?
If you removed all the vegetation, soil, and water from the surface of the earth this would be left.
What is hard, solid rock?
Magma from the mantle comes up to fill the space, cools, and hardens - adding new solid rock to the edges of both plates.
What is a divergent boundary?
True or False- Continents slowly moved apart as new plates from underneath got added between them over millions of years.
True-
The soft, solid mantle fills the space.
The place where two plates meet.
What is a plate boundary?
Earth's plates travel at a rate _________ _________ to be experienced by humans.
What is too slow?
One plate moves underneath the other plate and disappears into the mantle.
What is a convergent boundary?
True or False- Underneath the soil, Earth’s outer layer is made of hard, solid rock. Underneath the ocean, Earth’s outer layer is made of sand.
False
Both the soil and ocean Earth's outer layer is made of hard, solid, rock?