Layers of The Earth | ||
#1 | The inner most layer of the Earth | What is the core? |
#2 | Earth's outter most layer | What is the Crust? |
#3 | The layer under the Crust, where convection currents occur. | What is the Mantle? |
#4 | The liquid layer of molten metals | What is the Outer Core? |
#5 | The layer of the Earth made of the Crust and the top layer of the Mantle. It is divided into moving sections. | What is the Lithosphere? |
Continental Drift | ||
#1 | The name of the giant super continent | What is Pangaea? |
#2 | The German man who discovered the theory of Continental Drift | Who is Alfred Wegener? |
#3 | One type of evidence that was found in the rocks in Africa and South America | What is Fossil Evidence? |
#4 | Organisms that can be changed into fossils | What are plants and animals? |
#5 | The problem, at the time, in Wegener's theory was that ...... | he couldn't explain how the continents moved |
Plate Tectonics | ||
#1 | The name for plates made up of land | What is continental? |
#2 | The name for plates made up of ocean | What is Oceanic? |
#3 | When two plates move apart | What is Divergent Boundary? |
#4 | When two plates collide | What is Convergent Boundary? |
#5 | When two plates slide against each other | What is Transform Boundary? |
Volcanoes | ||
#1 | The name of the molten rock when it is still inside the Earth | What is magma? |
#2 | The boundary where most volcanoes form | What are Convergent Boundaries? |
#3 | The process when the oceanic plate dives under the continental plate | What is subduction? |
#4 | The volcanic explanation for the creation of the Hawaian islands | What are hot spots? |
#5 | The process of magma building an ocean ridge at a Divergent Boundary | What is sea floor spreading? |
Earthquakes | ||
#1 | The boundary where Earthquakes are an effect of plate movement | What is Transform Boundary? |
#2 | The point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus | What is the Epicenter? |
#3 | The device that measures and records seismic waves | What is a seismograph? |
#4 | The event that can be created if there is an earthquake on the ocean floor | What is a Tsunamis? |
#5 | The name of the scale used to rate the amount of destruction created by an Earthquake. | What is the Mercalli Scale? |
Final Question | |
The rating sytem used to classify the magnitude of an earthquake | What is the Richter Scale? |