Compositional Layers
The outermost layer of Earth
What is the crust
The liquid layer of Earth
Transform
Name all three boundaries
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
The large continent on Earth 200+ million years ago
What is Pangea?
The middle layer of Earth
What is the mantle?
The densest layer
What is the inner core?
The boundary where plates move away from each other
What is divergent
The process that leads to the creation of new ocean floor
What is seafloor spreading
Pangea existed because the continents fit together like what
What is puzzle pieces?
The layer of Earth made mostly of iron and nickel
What is the core?
Put the layers in order from outer to inner layers
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Mesosphere
Outer Core
Inner Core
The plate boundary where plates come together
What is convergent?
Large separate portions of Earth's lithosphere that move
What is tectonic plates?
We found the same what on two different continents on either sides of the world
fossil evidence, plant species, animal species, mountain ranges
The densest layer of Earth
What is the core?
The layer that includes the crust and upper mantle
What is the lithosphere?
When one plate slips below another into the mantle
What is subduction zone
Where old oceanic crust go to get destroyed
What is Ocean Trenches
The two larger continents Pangea split into
What is Laurasia and Gondwana?
The layer responsible for the movement of tectonic plates
What is the mantle?
The layer tectonic plates move on top of
What is the asthenosphere
The denser type of crust
What is oceanic
How do tectonic plates move
Mantle Convection
The slow movement of land over Earth's surface
What is continental drift?