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Layers of the Earth
Layers of the Earth cont.
Continental Drift
Faults
100
The outermost, rigid layer of the Earth is ____________
What is the Lithosphere
100

Igneous rocks are created by cooling and melting

What is cooling and melting

100
Alfred Wegener.
What is Who discovered the continental drift theory?
100
The surface along which rocks break and slide past each other.
What is a fault?
200

The farther you go down into the Earth the more_____ and ______

What is hotter temperature and more pressure

200
The part of the Earth on which the tectonic plates move.
What is Asthenosphere?
200
Continents fit like a puzzle and fossils on different continents
What is proof of continental drift?
200
The blocks of crust on each side of the fault.
What is fault blocks?
300

Metamorphic rocks are created from

What is heat and pressure

300

Sedimentary rocks are form by

What is compaction and erosion

300
Sea-floor spreading occurs.
What is mid-ocean ridges.
300
This usually occur when tectonic forces cause tension that pulls rocks apart.
What is Normal fault?
400

Granite, pumice and basalt rocks are what types of rocks

What is Igneous

400

The Four layers of the Earth

What is crust, mantle, and the inner and outer core

400
The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifiies.
What is sea-floor spreading?
400
The hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall.
What is reverse fault?
500
The inner and outer core.
What are the two parts of the Core.
500
The machine that measures the times at which seismic waves arrive at different distance from an earthquake/
What is seismograph?
500

New crust forms at mid-ocean ridges.

What is the mid-ocean ridges support both continental drift and plate tectonics.

500
Forms when opposing forces cause rock to break and move horizontally.
What is strike-slip fault?