Vocabulary
Magma - molten or melted rock
what is molten or melted rock
What is Mrs. Buechel's favorite color?
what is purple ?
Type of boundary where two plates come together or collide.
What is a convergent boundary.
There are ______________ main layers of the Earth.
what is four ?
What forces causes the plates to move?
What are convection currents in the mantle.
Convection currents
what is magma circulates to move the tectonic plates
What is the capital of Wisconsin?
what is madison ?
Boundary where two plates pull apart from each other.
What is a divergent boundary.
What is one piece of evidence that we know Pangaea existed?
What is fits like a puzzle piece, same mountain ranges, similar fossils of plants and animals and similar climate
What is in the subduction zone?
What is magma.
Lithosphere
what is the tectonic plates are on this layer
how many continents are there ?
what is 7 ?
Type of boundary where two plates slip past each other in opposite directions.
What is a transform boundary.
The thickest layer of the Earth
What is the mantle.
Type of boundary where two plates slip past each other in opposite directions.
What is a transform boundary.
What are convection currents?
What is magma cools as it rises and circulates. When it starts to sink down, the temperature rises.
What is Mrs. Buechel's dog's name?
what is Oscar ?
The most dense type of lithospheric plate
What is oceanic plate.
How far do plates move in a year
1-10 cm
What happens to crust when it is pulled into the asthenosphere?
What is melting
What is the sea floor spreading?
What is the oldest oceanic crust gets recycle to create new oceanic crust?
what continent do we live on ?
what is North America
When two plates collide what determines what plate will stay on top?
What is density.
The rigid part of the Earth including the crust and the upper mantle (makes up the plates of the Earth)
What is the lithosphere
What type of plate boundary formed the Himalayan mountains?
What is a continental to continental convergent boundary.