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Vocabulary
Structure of the Earth
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
100
The thinnest layer of the Earth
What is the crust
100
There are ______________ main layers of the Earth.
What is four
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
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface
What is tectonic plates.
200
The thickest layer of the Earth
What is the mantle.
200
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary
What is divergent boundary
200
Hot air or liquid is less ________________ than cool air or liquide
What is dense
300
Define Convergence
What is the process or state of converging
300
Plates float on top of the _______________________.
What is the asthenosphere
300
Name four of the major plates
What is any of the following North American plate, South American plate, Eurasian Plate, Indoaustralia plate, African plate, Antarctica plate
300
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
What is earthquakes
400
a actively deforming region where two (or more) tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide
What is Convergence Boundary
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
This is the mechanism (what causes) the plates to move
What is convection cycles in the mantle
400
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ____________________ boundary.
What is a transform boundary (Daily Double!)
500
Although the hottest layer of the Earth, this layer is solid metal
What is the inner core
500
The Earth's crust is thinnest under the _____________________ and thickest under the _____________________.
What is thinnest under the ocean and thickest under the continents.
500
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)
500
This Plate is in the Pacific Ocean
What is Coco's Plate, Jaun de Fuca Plate, Australian Indian Plate, Nazca Plate, or Philippine Plate