Plate Tectonics

Question 1

Lithosphere

Answer 1

The outer rigid part of the earth

Question 2

Asthenosphere

Answer 2

the upper layer of the mantle below the lithosphere.

Question 3

Mesosphere

Answer 3

part of the atmosphere above the stratosphere

Question 4

Inner Core

Answer 4

the innermost part of the earth, it basically a solid ball of metal and rock.

Question 5

Outer Core

Answer 5

above the inner core but below the mantle it is a liquid layer.

Question 6

Seismic Waves

Answer 6

an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake or other stuff.

Question 7

Oceanic Crust

Answer 7

the part of earth below the oceans.

Question 8

Continental Crust

Answer 8

the part of the crust that makes the continents it is older than the oceanic crust

Question 9

Density

Answer 9

the measure of how compact a substance is.

Question 10

Wegener

Answer 10

was a famous german geophysisist

Question 11

Continental Drift

Answer 11

the gradual movement of the continents across the earth.

Question 12

Convergent Boundary

Answer 12

where two tectonic plates meet.

Question 13

Divergent Boundary

Answer 13

where two plates move away from each other

Question 14

Transform Boundary

Answer 14

faults that do not destroy the lithospere

Question 15

Sea-floor Spreading

Answer 15

the forming of new oceanic crust.

Question 16

Pangaea

Answer 16

was a hypothetical massive continent that split up forming our continents.

Question 17

Laurasia

Answer 17

When Pangaea Split up That was the southern one.

Question 18

Gondwana

Answer 18

That was the Northern Continent That was formed when pangaea split

Question 19

Mesosaurus

Answer 19

a small aquatic dinosaur

Question 20

Glossopteris

Answer 20

Glossopteris is the largest and best-known genus of the extinct order of seed ferns known as Glossopteridales