Earth's Changes

Things are drifting

100

What caused the continents to move?

What is convection?

200

The layer of rock beneath the Earth's Crust.

What is Mantle?

300

A theory of how Earth's continents have moved

What is Continental Drift?

400

A super continent containing all of the Earth's land that existed about 225 million years ago.

What is Pangea?

500

Broken pieces of Earth's crust

What is Plate?

Let's Shake it Up

100

A shaking of the ground caused by transform boundaries

What is an Earthquake?

200

Tranform boundaries occur when two plates...

What is slide past each other?

300

How can a fossil end up at the top of a mountain?

It was once under water and then pushed up to form a volcano.

400

A mountain formed by lava and ash

What is a Volcano?

500

An area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. 

What is the Ring of Fire

Plates, Forks and Spoons

100

This is when two plates pull apart.

What is divergent?

200

What is the name of the theory that states the Earth's crust is broken into pieces?

What is the theory of plate tectonics?

300

What is subduction and what causes it?

What are two plates colliding and one being pushed under another?

400

What is a famous mountain range formed by converging plates?

What are the Himalayas, Mt. Everest, Appalachian Mountains, etc?

500

What is happening with a convergent plate?

It is pushing together to form mountains.

Hodge Pog

100

The remains or traces of past life found in sedimentary rock.

What is a fossil?

200

The thin outer layer of the Earth or the pieces of the bread that are cut off your sandwich.

What is the crust? :)

300

The center of the earth.

What is the core?

400

What are the three layers of the Earth?

What are the crust, mantle, and core?

500

What two continents most obviously fit together like a puzzle?

What are South America and Africa?