plate tecois

Question 1

crust

Answer 1

a outermost shell of a roky planet.

Question 2

mantel

Answer 2

layr of molten rock betwen the crust and core.

Question 3

core

Answer 3

made of mosly iron. seperated into the outer core (molten) and iner core (solid.)

Question 4

tetonic plates

Answer 4

the layer of rock that make up the oter part of the earth, including the crust and uper mantel. (lothosperec plates.)

Question 5

continetal drift theory

Answer 5

the continets gradully drifted over time to there current positions.

Question 6

asthenosphere

Answer 6

a thin layer of erth about 150 miles thick at the border betwen the mantel and the crust.

Question 7

convention current

Answer 7

the proces in wich the hotter parts of a gas or liquid rise to the top and the coolor denser parts sink.

Question 8

covnercent boundry

Answer 8

when two teconic plates come together.

Question 9

montains

Answer 9

uplift of crystal plated that form elavated landmases.

Question 10

volcanose

Answer 10

a vent or fissure in earths surfece through wich magma and gasses are expelled.

Question 11

divergant boundary

Answer 11

when tetonic plates split apart.

Question 12

trasnform boundary

Answer 12

when tetonic plates slide past eachother.

Question 13

fault

Answer 13

breks in the crust the movment causes siesmic waves wich produces earthquakes.

Question 14

mid ocen ridge

Answer 14

a long ridge of volcanose betwen two diverding ocenac plates.

Question 15

subucton zone

Answer 15

a place where one tecoic plate sinks under another and melts. also forms a trench.

Question 16

rift vally

Answer 16

a long narow vally between two divreging cotinental plates.