Name that Layer
The outermost layer of Earth, where continents and oceans can be found.
What is Earth's crust?
The theory that states that Earth's continents move around on plates, which changes Earth's landscape slowly over the span of millions of years.
What is plate tectonics?
This is the name for lava when it is still beneath Earth's surface in the mantle.
What is magma?
Heat transfer occurs due to a difference in what property of matter?
What is temperature?
Name the candy that has the slogan "taste the rainbow."
What is Skittles?
True or false: The inner core is made up of molten iron and nickel.
What is false? (The inner core is solid!)
This scientist is credited with the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Where is the crust thicker: under mountains or under oceans?
What is under mountains?
Sunlight is an example of this type of heat transfer.
What is radiation?
Name of the date of the fall equinox (the first day of autumn) this year.
What is Sunday, September 22?
This layer contains the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle. Its name is derived from Greek and means "solid globe."
What is the lithosphere?
Name one type of evidence of continent movement.
What is fossils, climate change, or land features?
This type of rock contains traces of once-living organisms, including their bodies and their activities.
What are fossils?
This type of heat transfer occurs where there is direct contact between surfaces.
What is conduction?
This is Massachusetts's state flower.
What is the Mayflower?
What is crust, mantle, core? or
What is crust, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core, inner core?
This event occurs at plate boundaries.
What are earthquakes?
This type of rock forms after volcanic eruptions.
What is igneous rock?
If you were heating a pot of water on the stove, would you expect the water to rise or sink as its temperature increases?
What is rise?
This is the name of Taylor Swift's current worldwide tour.
What is Eras?
The layer(s) of Earth that contain iron and nickel.
What is Earth's core? or
What is the inner and outer core?
What is Pangaea?
Name two types of igneous rocks.
What are basalt and granite?
This is the type of heat transfer that occurs within Earth's mantle.
What are convection currents?
What are the names of Ms. Osborn's cats (100 points per cat!)
Who are Luna, Mama Bear, Teddy, JoJo, and Mittens?