| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is oceanic crust? | |
| What is continental crust? | |
| What is lithosphere? | |
| What is athenosphere? | |
| What is mesosphere? | |
| What is mantel? | |
| What is outer core? | |
| What is inner core? | |
| The topmost layer that includeds balsalt, and fedsphere | |
| Is the layer of granitic, and metamorphic rock. | |
| The ridged outer part of earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantel | |
| The upper layer of earths mantel, below the lithosphere | |
| The layer beneath the asthenosphere that is strong made of part of the mantel | |
| The layer of rock between the Eartha??s crust and core. | |
| The liquid layer of Eartha??s core that lies beneath the mantel and surrounds the inner core. | |
| The solid dense center of our planet that extends from the bottom of the outer core to the center of Earth. | |
| Who is Alfred Wegner? | Scientist who looked at pieces of the land on eartha??s crust. |
| What is Pangea? | Pangea is a huge continent |
| What is continental drift? | The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass |
| What is midocean ridge? | Are mountain chains that form where tectonic plates pull apart. |
| What is sea-flour spreading? | The process by which new oceanic litheosphere forms. |
| What is convection currents? | |
| A current fluid that results in convection | |
| What is plate boundary? | |
| What is convergent boundary? | The boundary between the plate tectonics when they collide. |
| A techtonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other. | |
| What is a divergent boundary? | The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. |
| What is transform boundary? | The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally. |
| What is subduction? | Sideways downward movement of the edge of a plate of the eartha??s crust into the mantel beneath another plate |
| What is the theory of plate tectonics? | A theory that says the litheosphere is broken into plates and those plates are moving |
| What is a volcano? | Vents that allow lava, rock fragments and gases to escape from layers beneath the eartha??s surface |
| What is a earthquake? | Sudden violent shaking of the ground created by plates colliding. |
| What is hotspot? | A small area or region relatively hot temperature in comparison to its surroundings. |
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