Plate Techtonics Flashcards
The most inner part of the earth
Core
Makes up the continents
Crust
Made up of a crust
Lithosphere
Layer below the crust
Mantle
Area where the plates meet
Plate boundary
A theory
Play tectonics
What are the layers of earth?
Crust upper mantle lower mantle outer core inner core
Explain Alfred weggners therey of contentental drift and what are the 5 reasons why
He thought that the contents where all together and it was called Pangea and rock layer animal fossils convection seafloor spreading climate chage
What are convection currents
Heat cycles that happen in the air
What are the 3 main boundary’s diverg
Divergent convergent and transform divergent moves two boundary’s away from earth other convergent collide transform is when they run against earth other
What are the effects of the plate shift
Mountains form
What happens when a plate drops beneath one anothr
Earthquakes
What is lava and maga
Lava is out of the volaxano and magma is in the volcano