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1. What latitude divides the northern and southern hemispheres? 0
2. What is the name of zero degrees latitude? Equator
3. One word difference between meridian and longitude? Degrees
4. What is the longitude of the International Date Line (IDL)? 180
5. What hemispheres do the Prime Meridian and IDL separate? West and East
6. What is the hottest region in the Earth? Core
7. What layer is responsible for the Earth’s magnetic field? Outer Core
8. Label Earth’s layers in order from thickest (1) to thinnest (4) (number 1 through 4).
4 Crust
2 Outer Core
1 Mantle
3 Inner Core
9. 225 million years ago the Earth had one giant landmass called Pangaea
10. The theory that this landmass split apart is Continental Drift
11. Evidence used to support Cont. Drift theory Matching Fossils
12. Label the three types of tectonic boundaries:
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Convergant
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Divergant
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Transform
13. What are the two types of crust? Oceanic and Continental
14. One plate sliding down under another plate is called Subduction
15. Two plates pulling apart on the seafloor is called Seafloor Spreading
16. What drives plate tectonics? (hint: type of heat transfer) Convection
17. Where magma works its way to the surface from a deep mantle source Hot Spot
18. What type of boundary is the San Andreas Fault? Transform
19. What is the study of how matter deforms and flows? Rheology
20. What type of boundary is seafloor spreading?
Divergent