Plate Tectonics:)

Question 1

Name the plates

Answer 1

Nazca, Indian, pacific, Euroasian, African, Antarctic, Indo-Australia, North American, South American

Question 2

Layers of the earth and description

Answer 2

Crust (the layer we live upon it is between 6km and 70km thick it is made of solid rock)
Mantle (the mantle is made of it molten rock called magma which moves slowly like thick honey it takes up 85% of the earth)
Outer core ( The earths outer core is made of liquid iron and nickel. The movement of this liquid gives out earths its magnetic field)
Inner core ( the core is made of solid iron and nickel)

Question 3

Name the super continent

Answer 3

Pangaea

Question 4

What is a convention current

Answer 4

A covection current is the movement of magma in the earths mantle

Question 5

Types of plate boundaries

Answer 5

Constructive ( or divergent)
Destructive ( or convergent)
Transform

Question 6

What happens where plates serparate?

Answer 6

Where plates separate magma comes to the earths surface to fill the gap. The lava cools and hardens into bassalt rock and new crust is formed this is called a Mid- Ocean Ridge