Restless Earth - Tectonics Plates

Question 0

The centre of the earth contains ?

Answer 0

The core filled with solid iron and nickel

Question 1

The earths’s surface is separated into?

Answer 1

Tectonic plates

Question 2

Around the core is ?

Answer 2

The mantle, which is semi molten rock, moves slowly

Question 3

The crust of the world is divided ?

Answer 3

Into Slabs known as tectonic plates

Question 4

Continental crust is ?

Answer 4

Thicker and less dense

Question 5

Oceanic crust is ?

Answer 5

Thin and more dense

Question 6

Why do the tectonic plates move ?

Answer 6

This is as they float on the moving mantle

Question 7

The place where plates meet I known as ?

Answer 7

A Plate margin or boundary

Question 8

A destructive margin is when ?

Answer 8

Two plate move towards each other, the denser plate is forced down into the mantle and destroyed

Question 9

The constructive margin is where ?

Answer 9

The two plates move away from each other and magma rises and cooks filling gap

Question 10

What happens at the conservative margin?

Answer 10

This is where two plates move sideways past each other ( same direction different speeds or opposite directions)