Plates

Question 1

The out most shell of a rocky planet

Answer 1

Crust

Question 2

Layer of molten rock between the crust and core

Answer 2

Mantle

Question 3

Made up mostly of iron. separated into the outer core moltenandinner core solid

Answer 3

CORe

Question 4

The layer of rock that makes up the outer part of the earth including the crust and upper mantle lithosperic plates

Answer 4

tectonic plate

Question 5

The theory that continent gradually drifted over time ti their present positions

Answer 5

Continental drift theory

Question 6

A thin layer of earth about 150 miles thick at the border bewtween the mantle and crust

Answer 6

asthenosphere

Question 7

the process in which hotter parts of a gas or liquid rise to the top and the cooler denser parts sink

Answer 7

convection current

Question 8

when two tectonic plates come together

Answer 8

convergent boundary

Question 9

uplift of crustal plates that form elevated landmasses

Answer 9

mountains

Question 10

a vent or fissurein earths surfacethrough which magma and gases are expelled

Answer 10

volcanoes

Question 11

when tectonic platesq split apart

Answer 11

divergent bouandry

Question 12

When tectonic plates slide past eachother

Answer 12

transform boundary

Question 13

breaks in the crust the movement causes sisemic waves which produces earthquakes

Answer 13

fault

Question 14

a long ridge of underwater volcanoes between two diverging oceanic plates

Answer 14

mid ocean birrdge

Question 15

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

Answer 15

subduction zone