SCIENCe TEST

Question 1

Gawndala & Laurasia

Answer 1

When Pangea split, it spilt into 2 different parts. Laurasia and Gawndala. They were both supercontinents

Question 2

How are mountains formed

Answer 2

Movements of tectonic plates create volcanoes along the plate boundaries, which erupt and form mountains

Question 3

continental drift

Answer 3

Continental drift was a theory that explained how continents shift position on Earth’s surface. Set forth in 1912 by Alfred Wegener, a geophysicist and meteorologist, continental drift also explained why look-alike animal and plant fossils, and similar rock formations, are found on different continents.

Question 4

subduction zone

Answer 4

A subduction zone is the biggest crash scene on Earth. The plates are pieces of crust that slowly move across the planet’s surface over millions of years.

Question 5

movement of continents

Answer 5

The plates are always moving and interacting in a process called plate tectonics.

Question 6

Layers of the earth

Answer 6

The inner core is in the centre and is the hottest part of the Earth.
The mantle is the widest section of the Earth.
The crust is the outer layer of the earth

Question 7

what two were formed to create pangea

Answer 7

Gondwana and Laurasia joined together to form the supercontinent Pangaea

Question 8

plate tectonics

Answer 8

a theory explaining the structure of the earth’s crust

Question 9

convection currents

Answer 9

convections can only happen in fluids because the molecules have to be free to move.

Question 10

plate boundaries

Answer 10

divergent, convergent and transform