Layers of the Earth
Amount of layers in the Earth.
What is five?
Mountain ranges are created here.
What is Convergence between Continental-Continental?
Amount of Plate Boundaries.
What is three?
Earthquakes are created here.
What is Plate Boundaries?
Pulling of a tectonic plate as its edge subducts deep into the mantle
What is "slap pull"?
The thinnest layer of the Earth.
What is crust?
Volcanic Island Arcs are created here.
What are Convergence between Oceanic-Oceanic?
Divergence Boundaries.
What are tectonic plates spread apart, caused by seafloor spreading?
Old Crust is destroyed here.
What is Subduction zones?
Which is lighter: oceanic or continental crust?
What is Continental Crust?
The thickest layer of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
Mountain ranges and Earthquakes are created here.
What is Convergence between Continental-Oceanic?
Transform Boundaries.
What are plates that slide by each other, creates earthquakes and faults?
Subduction Zones appear here.
What are Convergent boundaries?
Another name for a transform plate boundary.
What is Conservative?
Earth's hottest layer.
What is inner core?
Earthquakes and Faults are created here.
What are Transform boundaries?
Plates move together.
What are Convergence Boundaries?
Seafloor Spreading.
What is the name of the process that occurs at the mid-ocean ridge?
Mid-Oceanic Ridge
What is an example of a divergent plate boundary?
Correct order for the layers of the Earth from internal to external.
What is the inner core, outer core, mantle, asthenosphere, lithosphere, crust?
Type(s) of convergent boundary forms trenches.
What is oceanic-continental convergence
oceanic-oceanic convergence?
Three types of Convergence Boundaries.
What is Oceanic-Continental, Oceani-Oceanic, Continental-Continental?
Convection Currents appear here.
What is Earth's Mantle?
Plate Tectonic Theory.
Who is Alfred Wegener?