Plate Tectonics
Name the supercontinent that existed almost 200 million years ago
What is Pangea?
A stratovolcano is the name as this type of volcano.
What is a composite volcano?
We are currently living in this era.
What is Cenozoic?
We are currently on this layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
The two types of plates that exist.
What are continental and oceanic plates?
Name the 3 different type of volcanos we looked at.
What is composite, shield, and caldera?
These are the 4 different eras in order from the earliest to the most recent.
What are the precambrian, paleozoic, mesozoic, and cenozoic eras?
Name the 4 layers of the Earth in order.
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
Continental drift occurs due to convection currents in this layer of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
The name of where the magma shoots out from.
What is the main vent?
What is the Mesozoic era?
This layer is the thickest layer.
What. is the mantle?
How mountains are formed.
What are continental plates colliding?
The place where the magma rests in the volcano.
What is the magma chamber?
This mass extinction ended the Paleozoic era.
What is the Permian extinction?
This layer is solid because of the intense heat and pressure.
What is the inner core?
He came up with the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegner?
Mount Saint Helen's erupted in what year?
What is 1980?
This era was when the Appalachian mountains formed.
What is the Paleozoic era?
How deep into the Earth have we drilled?
What is 12km?