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1. What is Pangaea?
2. The core is mainly made of what element?
3. What are the three compositional layers of the
Earth?
4. What layer do tectonic plates “float” on?
5. Scientists use ______ _______ to study the Earth’s
interior?
6. What layer makes up most of Earth’s mass?
7. Which type of crust is denser: continental or
oceanic? (Think, which one is going to SINK)
8. When two plates touch, it is called a ________
____________.
9. Temperature, density, and pressure __________ as
we move from crust to core.
10. A fault is a _________ in the Earth’s crust.
11. What is a subduction zone?
12. Wegener’s hypothesis stated what?
13. Which layer contains tectonic plates?
14. When two tectonic plates slide past one
another, what type of boundary is this?
15. Which layer is liquid?
16. What are the two types of crust?
17. Where do earthquakes happen?
18. What are three forms of evidence that helps
support the hypothesis of Pangaea?
19. What are the three types of convergent
boundaries?
20. What is the thickest compositional layer of the
Earth?
21. Mountains form at which convergent boundary?
22. The core is in what physical state(s)?
23. When two tectonic plates collide, what type of
boundary is this?
24. What is sea floor spreading?
25. Seafloor spreading occurs at which boundary?
26. The chain of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean
where the most active earthquake zone is located is
called what?
27. List the 5 physical layers in order from outside
to inside the Earth.
28. In sea floor spreading, what is the age of the
rock found closest to the divergent boundary?
29. What theory helps explain why continents
move?,
30. When two tectonic plates separate, what type
of boundary is this?