Earth's Layers
Plate boundary where plates are moving past each other.
What are conservative plate boundaries?
The process of the mantle heating and rising to the surface and and then cooling and falling to the middle of the Earth?
What are convection currents?
The name of the two super continent formed 200 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
The thickest layer of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
Boundary where plates are moving away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
The parts that make up the lithosphere.
What are the crust and the solid part of the mantle?
The theory that all continents were all together and have since moved apart
What is Continental Drift Theory?
The molten metal layer of the Earth.
What is outer core?
The two types of crusts...
What are oceanic crust and continental crust?
4.5 billion years
What is the age of the Earth?
It is solid, hot, ball of metal
What is the inner core?
Type of boundary that causes earthquakes but not usually volcanoes.
What are conservative plate boundaries?
The name of the tectonic plate that Australia rests on.
What is the Indo-Australian Plate?
The names of the two continents that split from Pangea.
What are Laurasia and Gondwanaland?
Earth's layer between the lithosphere and the lower mantle.
What is the asthenosphere?
Where new oceanic crust is formed because of the cooling of the mantle?
What is constructive plate boundaries?
One ways that scientists know about the Earth's interior.
What are rock samples and seismic waves?
The name of the body of water that separated Gondwanaland and Laurasia
What is Tethys Sea?