Layers of Earth
This is the amount of Earth's layers.
What is four?
This is the kind of rock that volcanic (lava) rock is. You would find this in Hawaii!!!
What is Igneous Rock?
This is the amount of types of plate boundaries there are.
What is three?
Mount Everest is part of this mountain range.
What is the Himalayan Mountains?
This is the name of of the supercontinent.
What is Pangaea?
This is the thickest layer that is divided into the Upper and Lower.
Mantle
Sandstone is characterized as this kind of rock.
What is sedimentary?
This is the name of the boundary when two plates collide.
What is convergent?
Mount Mitchell is shrinking mostly because of this reason.
What is erosion?
New Jersey is on this continent.
North America
This type of crust is more dense.
What is oceanic crust?
Metamorphic rocks are igneous or sedimentary rocks that are formed under these two conditions.
What is heat and pressure?
This is the name of the boundary that forms rift valleys.
What is divergent?
Mount Hotaka is located in this country.
What is Japan?
This scientist proposed the theory of continental drift.
What is Alfred Wegener?
The convection currents are moving this material in the aestonosphere.
What is magma?
Continental crust is made of this kind of rock.
What is granite?
San Andreas Fault happens at what kind of boundary.
Transform
Mount Everest grew this amount of feet between 1856 and 2021.
What is 30 feet?
Scientists recognize that there are this amount of major plates.
What is seven or eight?
This is the reason that the inner core is a solid not a liquid.
What is pressurized, or under pressure?
Sedimentary rocks form layers called________.
What is strata?
Hot spots are areas, where magma pushes through earth's crust, creating these.
What are volcanic islands?
This is the plate that Mount Aconcagua in the Andes Mountain is located.
What is South American Plate?
GPS is an acronym for this.
What is Global Positioning System?