Faults
What is the definition of Faults
A fault is a break in Earth's crust where slabs of crust slip past each other
All continents were once connected
(true or false)
True
What is the ring of fire made of/whats in it?
Its made of volcanoes
What is it called when the youngest rocks of ocean floor are moving outward
Seafloor spreading
There are ____ main layers of earth
3
how many main faults are there
3
What was the supercontinent called?
Pangea
how many volcanoes is in the ring of fire?
452
What is it called when all continents of Pangaea are now drifting apart
continental drift theory
What are the main layers of the earth
(hint: there are 3)
Crust, mantle, and core
What are the 3 main faults
Normal, reverse, strike-slip
What caused the continents to drift?
plate tectonics shifting
What is the shape of the ring of fire?
A horseshoe-like shape
what is the thinnist layer of earth
crust
What is the order of the 3 main layers, starting from the inside out.
core, mantle, crust
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a result of a _____ fault
Divergent
what is a piece of evidence supporting that there was a supercontinent
matching species, plate shifting, the contents fit together, rock formations, ect.
what would happen if all the volcanoes in the ring of fire erupted at once?
Everything would eventually die from the lava, and toxic gases all around the world.
what is it called when the hot magma rise and the cool magma falls and it goes continuessly in a circle motion.
convection currents
What is the inner core of the Earth made of?
The inner core is solid made of metals like, iron and nickle
what is am example of a transform boundary fault
San Andres fault
Creator of the continental drift theory
Alfred Wagener
Where is the ring of fire located?
the southern tip of South America, up along the coast of North America, across the Bering Strait, down through Japan, and into New Zealand
what is it called when the seafloor shrinks
subduction
What is the thickest layer of the earth?
The mantle