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2. Plate Tectonics 100
What is the name of the ancient landmass composed of all the continents?
PANGAEA
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3. Who came up the theory of continental drift?
Plate Tectonics 200
Who came up the theory of continental drift?
ALFRED WEGENER
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4. What causes the plates to move?
Plate Tectonics 300
What causes the plates to move?
CONVECTION CURRENTS IN THE ASTHENOSPHERE
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5. Where are Earth’s plates located?
Plate Tectonics 400
Where are Earth’s plates located?
LITHOSPHERE
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6. What 3 things support the theory of Plate Tectonics?
CLIMATE, FOSSILS, AND SHAPE OF THE CONTINENTS
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7. Plates moving away from each other form what type of boundary?
Boundaries 100
Plates moving away from each other form what type of boundary?
DIVERGENT
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8. Plates moving toward each other form what type of boundary?
Boundaries 200
Plates moving toward each other form what type of boundary?
CONVERGENT
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9. Plates sliding past each other form what type of boundary?
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Plates sliding past each other form what type of boundary?
TRANSFORM
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10. Boundaries 400
What landform is created when two continental plate collide?
FOLDED MOUNTAIN
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11. When an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate, this occurs.
Boundaries 500
When an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate, this occurs.
SUBDUCTION
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12. When magma rises up at an opening in the ocean floor, what occurs?
SEA-FLOOR SPREADING
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13. What landform is created where there is sea-floor spreading?
Ocean Floor 200
What landform is created where there is sea-floor spreading?
MID-OCEAN RIDGE
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14. What happens to oceanic crust that is pushed back into the mantle?
Ocean Floor 300
What happens to oceanic crust that is pushed back into the mantle?
MAGMA
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15. Ocean Floor 400
What landform is created when a oceanic crust subducts below continental crust?
DEEP OCEAN TRENCH
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16. What type of rock primarily makes up oceanic crust?
Ocean Floor 500
What type of rock primarily makes up oceanic crust?
BASALT
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17. Earth Layers 100 Name the layers of the earth from the inside out
INNER CORE, OUTER CORE, MANTLE, CRUST
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18. Where is the newest rock on Earth’s crust found?
Earth Layers 200
Where is the newest rock on Earth’s crust found?
MID-OCEAN RIDGE
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19. What causes convection currents in the mantle to move?
Earth Layers 300
What causes convection currents in the mantle to move?
HEAT FROM THE CORE
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20. Where is the lithosphere located? CRUST AND TOP LAYER OF THE MANTLE
Earth Layers 400
Where is the lithosphere located?
CRUST AND TOP LAYER OF THE MANTLE
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21. Earth Layers 500 What direction do convection currents move?
UP AND AWAY FROM EACH OTHER
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22. As depth below Earth’s surface increases, temperature and pressure
Potpourri 100
As depth below Earth’s surface increases, temperature and pressure
INCREASE
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23. What is the name of melted rock located under Earth’s crust?
Potpourri 200
What is the name of melted rock located under Earth’s crust?
MAGMA
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24. What can occur at a transform boundary? EARTHQUAKE, SHEARING, FAULT
Potpourri 300
What can occur at a transform boundary?
EARTHQUAKE, SHEARING, FAULT
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25. Potpourri 400 Why does oceanic crust sink below continental crust?
OCEANIC CRUST IS MORE DENSE
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26. How far do lithospheric plates move each year?
Potpourri 500
How far do lithospheric plates move each year?
1-10 CM
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