Plate Tectonics

The idea that continents move around on Earth's surface.

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• earthquake

• volcanic eruption

An ancient super made of the landmasses we know as our present day continents

• Atlantis

• Pangaea

• Laurasia

• Gondwana

A theory explaining how the tectonic plates (or lithosphere plates) on earth's surface move

• Volcanic Eruptions

• Earthquakes

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

A hypothesis that new molten material is erupting from mid ocean ridge.

• mid ocean ridge

• partially true

• sea floor spreading

• unknown

Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form?

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Reform

This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel

• Outer core

• Inner core

• Mantle

• Crust

This layer of Earth is the thickest part

• mantle

• crust

• outer core

• inner core

What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic

• lower and upper

• ocean and upper

• pizza and subway

Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?

• At plate boundaries

• in the middle of continents

• in oceans

• in the middle of plates

When one plate sides under neath another, it _________ and the magma _________.

• hardens, sinks

• hardens, rises

• melts, sinks

• melts, rises