Plate Tectonics

Question 0

Boundary where new crust is formed.

Answer 0

Divergent

Question 1

Upper mantle and crust are broken into pieces called ______ plates?

Answer 1

Tectonics

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Question 2

Soft layer of earth that has convention currents and causes plates to move.

Answer 2

Mantle

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Question 3

Individual that proposed the continental drift theory.

Answer 3

Alfred Wagner

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Question 4

Large land mass or supercontinent meaning “all land”

Answer 4

Pangea

Question 5

Boundary where plates move apart

Answer 5

Divergent

Question 6

Uppermost layer of mantle that is made up of tectonics plates

Answer 6

Lithosphere

Question 7

Boundary where plates collide

Answer 7

Convergent

Question 8

Boundary where plates slide past each other

Answer 8

Transform

Question 9

Area/zone where one platessinks below the other

Answer 9

Subduction

Question 10

The main driving force in the plates moving is this

Answer 10

Convention currents

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Question 11

________ the two types of crust are ________ and ________

Answer 11

Oceanic

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Question 12

The outer core state of matter

Answer 12

Liquid

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Question 13

The process of sea-floor spreading, creating new crust, happens along which boundary?

Answer 13

Divergent

Question 14

Convention currents in the mantle are caused by what heat from what layer?

Answer 14

Core

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Question 15

Inner core state of matter

Answer 15

Solid mantle

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Question 16

Subduction zone or trench is located at what boundary?

Answer 16

Convergent

Question 17

If the continents were put together, they would fit together like a ________

Answer 17

Puzzle

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Question 18

The layer of the mantle that is semi-solid

Answer 18

Asthenosphere

Question 19

This forms when two continental crusts collides with each other

Answer 19

Mountains

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Question 20

This forms when oceanic and continental crust collides with each other

Answer 20

Trench

Question 21

This occurs when plates slide past each other

Answer 21

Earthquakes

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Question 22

This forms when oceanic crust moves away from each other

Answer 22

Mid-ocean ridges

Question 23

This forms when continental crusts move away from each other

Answer 23

Rift Valley

Question 24

________, ________ increase as you travel further into the earth’s mantle and core.

Answer 24

Pressure, temperature

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Question 25

Boundary where old crust is removed

Answer 25

Convergent