Plate Tectonics

New crust is formed at this type of plate boundary

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

The layer of earth between the crust and the core

• Crust
• Mantle
• Inner Core
• Outer Core

The layer of earth that is solid metal

• Crust
• Mantle
• Outer Core
• Inner core

The type of plate boundary that forms deep ocean trenches

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Transform

The process that happens with an oceanic plate is pushed under a continental plate

• convection
• continental drift
• subduction
• sea floor spreading

The german scientist who created the theory of continental drift

• Pangaea
• Wegener
• Fossil
• Continent

The type of heat transfer in the mantle that causes the tectonic plates to move

• conduction
• convection
• radiation

Means "all land" and is the name of the great landmass that existed 245 million years ago

• Pangaea
• Wegener
• Fossil
• Continent

The thicker and less dense type of crust that forms the mountains and dry land

• Oceanic Crust
• Asthenosphere
• Continental crust
• Lithosphere

The liquid layer of Earth's interior

• Crust
• Mantle
• Outer Core
• Inner Core