Latitude & Longitude
The 0 degrees line that splits the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
The thickest layer of Earth.
What is the mantle?
The type of plate boundary that has plates moving away from each other.
What is divergent boundary?
This feature of the continents best suggests that they were once joined.
What is some continents fit together like puzzle pieces.
This 0 degrees line that separates the Earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
Crustal movement occurs because of convection currents in this layer of Earth.
What is the mantle?
The type of plate boundary when plates collide or move toward each other.
What is convergent boundary?
This is the cause of earthquakes.
What is movement of Earth's crust along plate boundaries
The letter at the location 60oN, 60oE.
What is letter C?
This layer of Earth is completely liquid.
What is the outer core?
The type of plate boundary associated with plates sliding past each other.
What is transform boundary?
The San Andreas Fault is a result of this.
What is crustal plate movement?
The letter at location 0o, 150oW
What is letter E?
This is the information scientists studied in order to develop the model of the Earth.
The type of plate boundary that causes mountains on land to form.
What is convergent boundary?
Explanation of subduction.
What is at a convergent plate boundary, one plate is forced beneath another
The letter at location 15oS, 75oE.
What is letter H?
Compare and contrast the inner core and outer core.
What is the inner core is solid while the outer core is liquid and they are both made of the same material (iron and nickel)
This geographic feature is formed at divergent boundaries.
What is mid-ocean ridges?
If tectonic plates continue to move, this is what Earth's surface will look like in millions of years.
What is the plates will move and come together to make another supercontinent