LAYERS
The outer most compositional later of the earth
What is the crust
The man who had the original idea that the continents were all once connected
Who is Wegener
The boundary in which two plates collide
What is convergent
What is transform
Island volcanoes are formed by a convergent boundary involving these plates
What are oceanic
The middle, biggest layer, of the earth
What is mantle
The idea that the plates are continuously moving
What is Plate Tectonic Theory
The type of boundary that forms land volcanoes
What is convergent of oceanic and continental
The point on the land that is directly above the focus
What is epicenter
A volcano that is currently erupting or ready to erupt
What is active volcano
The inner most layer of the earth
What is Inner Core
The types of plates that make up the world
What are continental and oceanic
When plates rub together creating friction
What is transform boundary
The point in the earths crust where an earthquake originates
What is focus
A land volcano is formed by these plates at a convergent boundary
The mechanical layer of the earth that contains the mantle
What is the mesosphere
What is Pangea
When one plate slips under another
Subduction
A line in which earthquakes are more prone to happening
What is a fault line
A volcano that has had no activity and no foreseeable future activity
This layer of the earth is the only liquid layer
What is the outer core
The Ring of Fire is located here
The Pacific Rim
A boundary that forms a mid-ocean rift
What is a Divergent Boundary
The depth at which earthquakes are most dangerous
Volcanoes made of alternating layers of lava cooled to form rock and ash
What is a composite volcano