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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?