Earth's Layers and Plate Tectonics
This layer of the Earth is the outermost, solid layer.
What is the CRUST?
The name for the giant landmass that had all of the continents pushed together.
What is PANGAEA?
The process by which rocks change shape when under stress.
What is DEFORMATION?
Mountain created by build up of ash and magma
What is volcanic mountain?
Formula for speed.
What are distance/time?
The solid, dense center of the Earth that extends from the bottom of the outer core to the center of Earth.
What is the INNER CORE?
The process when molten rock inside Earth rises through the cracks in the ridges, cools, and forms new oceanic crust.
What is sea-floor spreading?
The crack that forms when large blocks of rock break and move past each other.
What is a FAULT?
This type of mountain is created by the moving of tectonic plates passed each other.
What is a fault-block mountain?
Newton's 1st law.
What is Inertia- an object at rest stays at rest. etc.?
The scientist who first proposed the theory of CONTINENTAL DRIFT.
Who was Alfred Wegener?
The pieces that the lithosphere is divided into.
What are tectonic plates?
What is the hanging wall drops down?
This type of mountain formed by convergent boundaries colliding.
What is a folded mountain?
Formula for force.
What is force = mass x acceleration?
The COMPOSITIONAL layers of the Earth.
What is the Crust, Mantle, and Core?
The three types of plate boundaries.
What are divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries, and transform boundaries?
The three kinds of mountains.
What are Folded Mountains, Volcanic Mountains, and Fault-Block Mountains?
The motion of the three types of faults.
What is normal- hanging wall down, reverse- hanging wall up, strike-slip- blocks move parallel?
Galaxy that we live in.
What is a spiral galaxy?
Earth's Physical Layers.
What are the Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer Core, and Inner Core?
Many scientists believe that this is the most important mechanism driving tectonic plate motion.
(when a denser plate pulls the rest of the plate with it?
What is Slab Pull?
Stress that pushes rocks in parallel but opposite directions.
What is SHEAR STRESS?
The name given to describe the numerous explosive volcanoes that form on convergent plate boundaries surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
What is The Ring of Fire?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What is illusion that objects traveling long distances across earth follow a curved path?