Earth’s Interior Sea-floor spreading Plate Tectonics Continental Drift VocabPotpourri

Earth’s Interior 100 What are the interior layers of the Earth? CRUST, MANTLE, OUTER CORE, INNER CORE BACK

Earth’s interior 200 What are the two types of crust? Oceanic Crust and Continental Crust BACK

Earth’s Interior 300 Which layer of Earth is composed of basalt? Oceanic Crust BACK

Earth’s Interior 400 Which layer of the Earth is liquid and composed of Ni and Fe? OUTER CORE BACK

Earth’s Interior 500 What happens when you move deeper into the Earth’s interior? THE PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE BOTH INCREASE BACK

Sea-Floor Spreading 100 What does sea-floor spreading mean? A PROCESS WHERE NEW OCEAN FLOOR IS MADE BACK

Sea-Floor Spreading 200 What is the name of the area where new ocean floor is created? MID OCEAN RIDGE BACK

Sea-Floor Spreading 300 What comes out of the Earth during sea-floor spreading? MOLTEN MATERIAL/MAGMA BACK

Sea-Floor Spreading 400 What occurs to the oceanic crust when it comes into contact with the continental crust? SUBDUCTION OCCURS BACK

Sea-Floor Spreading 500 Why is the Pacific Ocean shrinking? THERE ARE MANY MORE DEEP OCEAN TRENCHES WHERE OCEAN FLOOR IS LOST FASTER THAN CAN BE MADE. BACK

Plate Tectonics 100 What is the name used to describe where two plates meet? PLATE BOUNDARIES BACK

Plate Tectonics 200 What is this kind of plate boundary where the plates move in opposite directions and what happens here? TRANSFORM BOUNDARY WHERE EARTHQUAKES OCCUR BACK

Plate Tectonics 300 What moves the lithosphere plates? CONVECTION CURRENTS BACK

Plate Tectonics 400 Why are there so many volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean? Because of all the plate boundaries where magma has risen to the surface. BACK

Plate Tectonics 500 What process occurs when the oceanic plate comes into contact with another oceanic plate or a continental plate? SUBDUCTION OCCURS BACK

Continental Drift 100 What does continental drift mean? THE CONTINENTS HAVE DRIFTED APART OVER MILLIONS OF YEARS BACK

Continental Drift 200 Who came up with the theory of continental drift? Alfred Wegener BACK

Continental Drift 300 What was the name of the large landmass that was composed of all the continents put together? PANGAEA BACK

Continental Drift 400 Was the theory of Continental Drift accepted by other scientists when it was proposed? NO, THE OTHER SCIENTISTS DID NOT BELIEVE THE THEORY WAS TRUE BACK

Continental Drift 500 What were the different types of evidence to support Continental Drift? FOSSILS, GLACIERS, AND FITTING TOGETHER LIKE PIECES OF A PUZZLE BACK

Vocab 100 What is a deep canyon in the ocean floor? TRENCH BACK

Vocab 200 What are the three types of heat transfer? CONVECTION, CONDUCTION, AND RADIATION BACK

Vocab 300 What is the transition layer between the outer core and the asthenosphere? MESOSPHERE BACK

Vocab 400 What is the transfer of thermal energy by movement of a fluid? CONVENCTION BACK

Vocab 500 What is a substance that has the properties of a solid, but has the ability to flow? PLASTICITY BACK

Potpourri 100 What is the type of rock that continental plates contain? GRANITE BACK

Potpourri 200 What does the mantle contain? LITHOSPHERE AND ASTHENOSPHERE BACK

Potpourri 300 True or False The continental crust is thinner and denser than the oceanic crust. FALSE BACK

Potpourri 400 What is the process called when two continental plate boundaries meet? FOLDING BACK

Potpourri 500 Divergent boundaries is to sea-floor spreading as Transform boundary is to ________? SHEARING BACK