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Plate Tectonics
Geology
100
Magma or molten rock that breaks through the earth from a volcano
What is Lava?
100
one of seven great land masses.
What is a continent?
100
going under
What is subduction?
100
Mt. St. Helens
What is a Volcano?
100
thickest section of the earth.
What is the Mantle?
200
The earth's center.
What is core?
200
there is both and inner and an outer.
What is core?
200
pushing up mountains.
What is Converging?
200
a Hot spot in the Pacific.
What is Hawaii?
200
These landforms often have canyons in them.
What are plateaus?
300
The part of the earth we live on.
What is Crust?
300
thickest layer of the earth made of mostly solid rock.
What is the mantle?
300
on the sea floor.
What is Spreading?
300
70% of Earth.
What is Water?
300
The type of map one would use to learn about the heights of mountains.
What is relief map?
400
The idea that the continents or moving due to plate tectonics.
What is Continental Drift Theory
400
volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean.
What is Ring of Fire?
400
grinding past.
What is Faulting?
400
30% of Earth.
What is Land?
400
the ocean that is shrinking.
What is Pacific?
500
up and down up and down.
What is relief?
500
study of the earth's physical structure and history.
What is Geology?
500
volcanoes
What is Subduction?
500
plains, plateaus, hills, and mountains.
What are major types of landforms?
500
The man who first came up with the idea that the continents are moving.
What is Alfre Wegner?