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Earth's Layers
Plate Tectonics
Continental Drift
Formations
Bonus
100
Crust
What layer of the Earth has been studied the most by scientists?
100
Plate Tectonics
What is the theory that the Earth's crust is divided into plates that move?
100
Continental Drift
What is theory that the continents move?
100
Rift Valleys
What is created by divergent boundaries?
100
Temperature Increases
What is as you get closer to the core?
200
very hot, solid rock
What is the mantle?
200
Plate Boundaries
What is where plates meet?
200
Super Continent
What is Pangaea?
200
Earthquakes
What occurs at transform boundaries?
200
Rock Samples and Seismic Waves
What is evidence of Earth's Interior?
300
Flexible layer where the crust sits.
What is the asthenosphere?
300
Faults
What are breaks in the Earth's crust?
300
Fossils, Land Features, Climate Change, Plants
What is evidence that supports Continental Drift?
300
Mountains and Volcanoes
What is created at convergent boundaries?
300
Atmosphere
What is the layer of gas above the crust?
400
Liquid and Solid center of the Earth
What are the Inner and Outer Core?
400
Divergent Boundaries
What are boundaries where plates move apart?
400
Alfred Wegener
Who is the creator of the theory of Continental Drift?
400
Mid Ocean Ridge
What is the undersea mountain chain?
400
21%
What is the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere?
500
Lithosphere
What is uppermost part of the mantle?
500
Convergent Boundaries
What are boundaries that collide?
500
1 inch per year
What is how much the plates move?
500
Subduction
What is the process where part of the ocean floor sinks back into the mantle at a deep ocean trench?
500
Pressure Decreases
What is as you travel away from the core?