Sun
True or False:
The Sun heats Earth EVENLY and keeps planets revolving around it by it's gravitational pull.
What is FALSE?
Earth is comprised of _____% water and ____% land.
What are 70% & 30%?
The German meteorologist who believed that the Earth's crust was broken into pieces that float & move around on Earth's asthenosphere.
Who was Alfred Wegener?
The theory that the Earth's crust is broken into pieces that float & move around on Earth's asthenosphere.
What is Continental Drift Theory?
Molten rock UNDER the Earth's crust.
What is magma?
The Sun and our solar system is approximately ____ years old.
What is 4.6 billion?
True or False:
The oceanic crust is thicker than the continental crust.
Where two tectonic plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent plate?
Name an example of a divergent plate boundary.
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge or Great Rift Valley?
The exact underground location of where an earthquake occurs.
What is the focus?
The time it takes Earth to revolve around the Sun one time.
What is 365 and 1/4 days?
Convection currents take place in the ______.
What is the mantle?
Where two tectonic plates pass or slide by each other.
What is a transform plate?
Name an example of a transform plate boundary.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
The Ring of Fire is located along the ______ Plate Boundary.
What is the Pacific Plate Boundary?
The Earth's outer core is made up of _______.
What is a liquid layer of mostly iron?
Name an example of a convergent plate boundary.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
Where two tectonic plates come together or collide with each other.
What is a convergent plate?
Molten rock ABOVE the Earth's crust.
What is lava?
The supercontinent from 250 million years ago that contained all the Earth's land masses.
What is Pangaea?
This occurs at convergent plate boundaries where one part of the Earth's crust goes under the other and gets recycled.
What is subduction?
Name at least 3 pieces of that supports Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory.
1. Apparent fit of continents
2. Fossil Correlation
3. Rock & Mountain Correlation
4. Paleoclimate Data
The exact point ABOVE the surface where an earthquake occurs.
What is the epicenter?