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Vocabulary
Structure of the Earth
Continental Drift Theory
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
100
The horizontal layers of rock
What is strata
100
There are ______________ main layers of the Earth.
What is four
100
Created the Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
100
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
What is a plate boundary
100
The Himalayan mountains are the result of a ___________________________ boundary.
What is convergent boundary
200
Giant irregular slabs of the lithosphere that float on Earth's mantle
What are tectonic plates
200
The thickest layer of the Earth, just below the crust.
What is the mantle.
200
The coastlines of these 2 continents fit together like puzzle pieces and was one of the pieces of evidence for Continental Drift Theory.
What is Africa and South America
200
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary and ___________________ occurs here where new ocean floor is formed.
What is divergent boundary; sea-floor spreading
200
Hot air or liquid is less ________________ than cool air or liquid, which causes it to rise.
What is dense
300
A crack in Earth's crust along which movement takes place.
What is a fault
300
The part of the mantle beneath the lithosphere.
What is the asthenosphere
300
In South America and western Africa the same plant and animal ___________ were uncovered.
What are fossils
300
The cause of tectonic plate movement is known as ___________________, and it occurs in the mantle.
What is convection
300
This is where most earthquakes and volcanoes form.
What is the Ring of Fire
400
The process by which magma wells up and fills the space between spreading tectonic plates.
What is sea-floor spreading
400
The rigid part of the Earth including the crust and the upper mantle (makes up the plates of the Earth)
What is the lithosphere
400
___________ deposits were found in tropical climates. This was one piece of evidence to support continental drift.
What is glacial
400
This type of plate boundary involves one plate sliding past another.
What is a transform fault
400
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ____________________ boundary.
What is a transform boundary
500
A geological process in which magma wells up and fills the space between spreading tectonic plates.
What is subduction
500
The part of Earth that extends to the center and is the innermost of Earth's layers.
What is the core
500
A piece of evidence showing that _______________ ___________ linked up as if the landmasses were once connected.
What are mountain ranges
500
The type of plate boundary can result in subduction or mountains being formed.
What is convergent,
500
The Ring of Fire outlines Earth's _______________ zones.
What is subduction