Earth's Layers
The layer of the Earth that is made of hard solid rock.
What is Earth's outer layer?
Moving apart in different directions.
What is divergent?
The boundary type where one plate subducts beneath another.
What is convergent boundary?
Moving toward the same place.
What is convergent?
The layer of the Earth made of soft solid rock.
What is the mantle.
Hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth.
What is lava?
San Andres fault is an example of this type of plate boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
Evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints.
What are fossils?
What is Earth's outer layer/lithosphere.
A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like.
What is a cross section?
An underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart.
What is the mid-ocean ridge.
The sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano.
What is an eruption?
Earth's outer later is made of these two types of crust.
What is the oceanic crust and continental crust?
One of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer.
What are plates?
This boundary type creates new crust.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
The place where two plates meet.
What is plate boundary?
This crust type is made of basaltic rock.
What is the oceanic crust?
Any of the many processes (such as eruptions and lava flows) in which gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of Earth.
What is volcanic activity?
A long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together.
Hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth.
What is magma?