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Plate Boundaries
Earths Layers
Volcanoes
100
Two plates moving apart from eachother
What is a divergent boundary
100
The outer layer of the earth
What is the crust
100
The boundary and plates that cause a volcano
What is a convergent boundary, continental and oceanic.
200
Two plates rubbing against each other to create earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary?
200
It gets as hot as 2000 degrees and is made of liquid
What is the outer core
200
Molten rock under the earths surface
What is Magma
300
Boundary that created the Himalayan mountains
What is a convergent boundary between continental plates.
300
Getting as hot as 10,000 degrees and solid
What is the inner core?
300
Hawaii was created by this
What is a Hot Spot
400
Put the plates in order from the most dense to the least dense.
Continental, Old Oceanic, Young Oceanic
400
The layer of the earth that the plates slide on
What is the Asthenosphere
400
This volcano destroyed Pompeii
What is Mt Vesuvius
500
The term for a plate moving underneath another plate because it is more dense.
What is subduction
500
Rocks that guide us to our earths geological history
What is sedimentary rock
500
Pyroclastic material shot through the sky in round clumps exploding through the air.
What is Volcanic Bombs