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Earth's Interior
Theories
Plate Boundaries
Landforms
Miscellaneous
100
The outer layer of earth is called this
What is the crust?
100
This person proposed the theory of continental drift?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
100
Two oceanic plates collide at this type of boundary.
What is Convergent Oceanic-Oceanic?
100
This landform is found at a Divergent Oceanic-Oceanic boundary.
What is a Mid-Ocean Ridge?
100
The name Alfred Wegener gave to the "Super Continent".
What is Pangea?
200
The athenosphere is a part of this layer of Earth.
What is the mantle?
200
The theory that hot molten rock is erupting in the sea floor, making it spread.
What is Sea Floor Spreading?
200
Two neighboring plates move past each other in opposite directions at this type of boundary.
What is a Transform boundary?
200
This landform is found at a Convergent Oceanic-Continental.
What is Deep Ocean Trench or Volcano?
200
The flow that transfers heat in a fluid.
What is a convection current?
300
The theory that all continents were once joined together in a supercontinent and have drifted apart.
What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
300
Two continental plates separate at this type of boundary.
What is divergent continental-continental?
300
This land feature forms at a Divergent Continental-Continental boundary.
What is a Rift Valley?
300
This type of crust is the most dense.
What is Oceanic Crust?
400
The lithosphere is part of these layers.
What is the mantle and crust?
400
The theory that Earth is made up of 7-8 major plates that are moving as a result of convection currents in the mantle.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
400
Long linear lakes are common at this type of boundary.
What is Divergent Continental-Continental?
400
Deep earthquakes are found at these types of boundaries.
What is Convergent Oceanic-Continental and Convergent Oceanic-Oceanic?
400
Two of the three examples of evidence to support the Theory of Continent Drift.
What is Climate, Landforms, and Fossils?
500
This is the order of Earth's layers starting at the surface.
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
500
Harry Hess proposed this theory?
What is the Theory of Sea-Floor Spreading?
500
Subduction occurs at this type of boundary.
What is Convergent Oceanic-Continental?
500
When two continental plates collide at a Convergent Continental-Continental boundary, this type of mountain forms.
What are Fold or Thrust-belt Mountains?
500
Two of the Three types of evidence to support Sea Floor Spreading.
What are Molten Material, Magnetic Strips, Drilling Samples?