Boundary forms
Miscellaneous
Land formations
Layers of the Earth
Vocabulary
100

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Convergent Boundaries 

100

Why is there sea rock that are younger than land rocks?

Seafloor spreading

100

Why does a geyser suddenly go off

The flow of heat from a magma chamber

100

What layer of Earth is responsible for the movement of tectonic Plates

The mantle

100

This is where convection currents take place

Mantle
200

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Divergent Boundaries

200

What is evidence that helps us know that Continental Drift actually happened?

The Earth is like a puzzle

200

Why does an Earthquake happen?

Transform boundary, suddenly moves

200
The deeper into Earth you go what happens?

The pressure, temperature, and density is increasing

200

The most dense part of the Earth Layers

Inner Core

300

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Transform Boundaries

300

What is a limitation of a scientific model

It is hard to predict things that happen for a long time.
300

What forms a ridge?

Divergent

300

Why is the inner core solid?

Because of pressure

300

The movement of matter due to differences to density that are caused by temperature variations.

Convection

400

When two plates are colliding but the one that is heavier sinks below it

Subduction

400

What is the best way to figure out how a mountain is formed

Examine a mountain that is exposed to see how it has changed over the years.

400

What forms a mountain

Convergent

400

The only layer of the earth that is liquid

Outer Core
400

theory that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted apart

Continental Drift

500

Subduction is a part of what plate boundary

Convergent

500

Why does scientific theories change 

New evidence is discovered

500

What forms a trench

Subduction

500

This layer consist of the crust and the mantle

Lithosphere

500

The theory that explains how large pieces of the lithosphere, called plates, move and change shape

Plate Tectonics