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The Earth’s
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©Norman Herr, 2003
• ANSWER:
The thickest of all the Earth’s layers and
what it is made of.
• QUESTION: What is the mantle and
magma?
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The Earth layer that makes up
tectonic plates.
• QUESTION:
What is the lithosphere?
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The two metals that make up the
inner and outer cores.
• QUESTION:
What are iron and nickel?
• ANSWER:
The process in the asthenosphere that
is responsible for plate movements.
• QUESTION:
What is convection currents?
• ANSWER:
Name the Earth’s 6 layers
alphabetically.
• QUESTION:
What is asthenosphere, crust, inner
core, lithosphere, mantle, and outer
core?
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Huge underwater mountain ranges.
• QUESTION:
What are mid-ocean ridges?
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The name of the supercontinent
when all continents were joined.
• QUESTION: What is Pangaea?
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The scientist that created the
hypothesis of continental drift.
• QUESTION:
Who is Alfred Wegener?
• ANSWER:
The fossilized reptile discovered in
South America and western Africa
that supported continental drift.
• QUESTION:
What is the Mesosaurus?
• ANSWER:
4 pieces of evidence for the hypothesis
of continental drift.
• QUESTION:
What is climate, fossils, geology and
the coastlines of Earth’s continents fit
together like a jigsaw puzzle?
• ANSWER:
The other term for a divergent
boundary in the ocean.
• QUESTION:
What is a spreading center?
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This is where hot rock rises from the
mantle away from a plate boundary.
• QUESTION:
What is a hot spot?
• ANSWER:
This is what happens to the crust at
a divergent plate boundary.
• QUESTION:
What is it forms?
• ANSWER:
When divergent plates spread this
feature may result on land.
• QUESTION:
What is a rift valley?
• ANSWER:
There are symmetrical patterns of
this at mid-ocean ridges.
• QUESTION:
What are magnetic reversals?
• ANSWER:
This type of convergent plate boundary
causes the plates to crumple and fold to
make mountains.
• QUESTION:
What is continental-continental collision?
• ANSWER:
2 plates scrape past each other at
this type of plate boundary.
• QUESTION:
What is a transform plate
boundary?
• ANSWER:
At this type of plate boundary crust
is neither formed nor destroyed.
• QUESTION:
What is a transform plate
boundary?
• ANSWER:
The 3 types of convergent plate
boundaries.
• QUESTION:
What are continental-continental
collision, oceanic-oceanic subduction, and
oceanic-continental subduction?
• ANSWER:
Name 3 features that result from
subduction boundaries.
• QUESTION:
What is island arcs, deep-ocean
trenches, and coastal mountains.
• ANSWER:
The type of plate boundary marked J.
• QUESTION: What is transform?
• ANSWER: The layer marked by A.
• QUESTION: What is the lithosphere?
• ANSWER: The plate moving process
occurring at location A.
• QUESTION: What is a slab pull?
• ANSWER: The feature represented by A.
• QUESTION: What is a mid-ocean ridge or
spreading center?
• ANSWER: The name of the tectonic plate
marked by the arrow and the type of
convergent boundary it shares with the
North American plate.
• QUESTION:
What is the Juan de Fuca Plate and
oceanic-continental subduction?
• ANSWER:
The two sub-continents that made up
the super-continent of Pangaea.
• QUESTION:
What is Laurasia and Gondwanaland?
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The research vessel used to determine
the age of sea floor rock.
• QUESTION:
What is the Glomar Challenger?
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• ANSWER:
Scientists estimate the North American
plate is moving southwest at this rate
in centimeters per year.
• QUESTION:
What is 2.3 cm?
Answer
Question
• ANSWER:
The number of years it will take Los
Angeles to become a suburb of San
Francisco because of movement along
the San Andreas Fault.
• QUESTION:
What is 10 million?
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• ANSWER:
This term in plate tectonics comes
from the Latin word “ducere”
meaning “to lead.”
• QUESTION:
What is subduction?
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