2-Plate Tectonics

This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel.

• Outer Core

• Mantle

• Inner Core

• Crust

This layer of Earth is the thickest part

• crust

• outer core

• mantle

• inner core

What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic

• ocean and upper

• lower and upper

• pizza and subway

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?

• at plate boundaries

• in oceans

• in the middle of continents

• in the middle of plates

When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?

• oceanic

• continental

• neither

What is the difference between magm

a and lava?

• Lava is magma it is both on the surface of the Earth.

• lava is the chamber that magma flows

• lava is the Earth's crust

• Magma is composed of molten rock and is stored in the Earth's crust. Lava is magma that reaches the surface of our planet through a volcano vent.

Two tectonic plates collide at a _____________ plate boundary.

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

What is subduction?

• one plate collides with another

• one plate destroys another

• one plate goes beneath another

• one plate divides another

The idea that continents were once part of a single landmass that broke apart and moved

• Continental Drift

• Tectonic Plates

• Transform

• Plate Boundaries

The land mass where all of the continents were once together in one large continent is called ________________.

• Laurasia

• Pangaea

• Eurasia

• Gondwana