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Mountain Makers
100
plastic like layer of Earth's surface below the lithosphere
What is asthenosphere
100
Sections of the earth's crust and upper mantle
What is plate
100
Theory that states that Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections which move around on a special layer of the mantle
What is Plate Tectonics
100
The seafloor spreading theory was proposed by this scientist
Who is Harry Hess
100
Land areas that are created by convergent boundaries
What is mountains
200
Rigid layer of Earth's surface made up of the crust and a part of the upper mantle
What is lithosphere
200
Largest layer of Earth's surface composed mostly of silicon, oxygen, magnesium and iron
What is mantle
200
Hypothesis that the continents have moved slowly to their current locations
What is Continental Drift
200
This person originated the hypothesis of continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener
200
Place where two plates move together
What is convergent boundary
300
One large landmass hypothesized to have broken apart about 200 million years ago into continents
What is Pangaea
300
Outermost layer of Earth's surface
What is crust
300
Cycle of heating, rising, cooling and sinking
What is Convection Currents
300
One of the fossils found both in Africa and South Americs
What is the Mesosaurus (or Labrynthodont)
300
As Earth's plates collide at boundaries, these two land forms are made
What are mountains and volcanoes
400
Where rocks on opposite sides of a fault move in opposite directions or in the same direction but at different rates
What is a strike-slip fault
400
evidence of continental drift in the form of ancient plants and bones
What is fossils
400
Boundary between two plates moving apart
What is Divergent Boundary
400
A research ship that gathered information about rocks on the seafloor
What is the Glomar Challenger
400
Volcanoes occur on at these zones
What is subduction zone
500
Sensing device that detects magnetic fields, helping to confirm seafloor spreading
What is magnetometer
500
The hard, hot center of the Earth made of nickel and iron
What is Core
500
Area where an oceanic plate goes down into the mantle
What is Subduction zone
500
The nickname of the boundary of the Pacific Plate
What is the Ring of Fire
500
The mountain range where two continental plates collide creating the highest mountains in the world
What is Himalayas