Moving and Shaking
Layers of the Earth
Hey, hey Albert Wegener!
Tectonic Plates
Plate Boundaries
Picture Clues
100

Earthquakes happen most frequently at this type of plate boundary.

What is a transform boundary??

100

The solid metal that mostly makes up the ball in the center of the Earth.

What is the iron?

100

What was Albert's profession?

What is a weatherman?

100

This is the name of the plate that is sliding under our feet.


What is the North American plate?

100

The mid Atlantic Ridge is an example of what type of boundary?

What is a divergent boundary?

100


What is Australia?

200

Mountains form most frequently at this type of plate boundary.

a) Transform

b) Convergent (collisional)

c) Convergent (subduction)


What is b) Convergent collisional?

200

All living things on Earth are found in or on this layer of the Earth.

What is the crust?

200

This type of evidence was found on the continents of South America and Africa.

What are fossils?

200

The name where plates meet

What are plate boundaries?

200

A convergent boundary means that the two tectonic plates are doing this.

What is moving towards each other?

200


1. Crust

2. Mantle

3. Outer Core

4. Inner core

300

The longest mountain range in the world is called this.

a) the mid-Atlantic Ridge

b) the Rocky Mountains

c) Mount Everest

What is a) the mid-Atlantic Ridge?

300

This is the thickest layer of the Earth.

What is the mantle?

300

This tropical plant fossil was found in what type of climate?

What is an arctic climate?

300

Europe and Asia are continents found on this tectonic plate.

What is the Eurasian Plate?

300

At a transform boundary the tectonic plates are moving this way.

What is side to side or across each other?

300


What tectonic plate is number 7?

The African Plate

400

At a convergent boundary one plate might slide underneath another plate. This is a called  ______.

a) fault line

b) sink hole

c) subduction


What is c) subduction?

400

Liquid metal makes up this layer of the planet that sits just underneath the mantle.

What is the outer core?

400

This evidence was found in the desert to support his continental drift theory.

What are glacier scrapes?

400

Most volcano and earthquake events occur here?

a) At plate boundaries

b) In the middle of plates

c) At both boundaries and the middle of plates

What is a) plate boundaries

400

At a convergent collision boundary the tectonic plates created these.

What are the Mountains?

400


What plate is number 13?

The Antarctic Plate

500

California is directly above a transform boundary which explains why there are so many of these.


a) earthquakes

b) tornados

c) plate boundaries

What is a) earthquakes?

500

These are the two types of crust that make up the outer layer of the Earth. One is underwater, the other is above sea level.

What are oceanic and continental crust?

500

Alfred Wegener's Theory

What is Pangea and the spreading of the continents.
500

This is the biggest of the tectonic plates. Clue: the biggest continent is mostly on this plate.

What is the Eurasian Plate?

500

At a convergent subduction boundary the tectonic plates create these

What is volcanos?

500


The eastern part of Asia is actually on this tectonic plate.

What is the North American Plate?

600
At a divergent boundary, this is what fills the gap as the two plates move away from each other.


a) air

b) water

c) magma

What is c) magma?

600

The thinnest of the two types that make up Earth's crust.

What is the oceanic crust?

600

The only thing that Wegener lacked to prove his theory.

What is the force that made the continents move?

600

New Earth (rock) is born at plate boundaries because of this type of activity that is common where tectonic plates meet. Clue: Ring of Fire

What is volcanic activity?

600

This is the type of boundary that formed the mid-Atlantic Ridge.

What is a divergent boundary?

600


The continents all used to be one giant supercontinent called this.

What is Pangea?