Layers of the Earth | Types of Boundaries | Wegener's Evidence | Weathering and Erosion | Locating Earthquakes |
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What is the inner core?
This is the inner most layer of the Earth.
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What is 12?
There are this many major plates on the Earth.
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What is the shapes of the continents?
This piece of evidence states that all the continents must fit together because their shapes seem to fit together.
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What is weathering?
This is the process of breaking down rock/crust into smaller pieces.
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What is a transform boundary?
This is the type of boundary that creates earthquakes.
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What is increase?
As you go further into the center of the Earth, the temperature ____________.
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What is a divergent boundary?
This type of plate boundary is created when 2 plates are moving away from each other.
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What is matching fossils?
This piece of evidence states that the fossils are found on different continents and this supports the the idea that they were once connected.
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What is erosion?
This is the process of carrying sediments to new places.
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What is seismology?
This is the study of earthquakes.
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What is the mantle?
This is the layer where convection currents move heat.
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What is a transform boundary?
This type of plate boundary is created when the plates slide past each other.
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What is matching rocks?
This piece of evidence states there are rocks/mountain ranges that continue from 1 continent to another.
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What is deposition?
This is the process of leaving sediments in a new place.
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What is a seismograph?
This is the instrument that measures the magnitude of an earthquake.
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What is plasticy?
This term is used to describe the physical state of the mantle.
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What is a convergent boundary?
This type of plate boundary is created when the plates are moving towards each other.
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What is 1915?
This is the year that Wegener proposed the Theory of Continental Drift.
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What is mechanical weathering?
This is when physical forces break rock into smaller pieces.
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What is the richter scale?
This is is the scale that measures the magnitude of an earthquake.
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What is the lithosphere?
This layer contains the solid part of the outer mantle and the crust.
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What is a trench?
This feature is created when 2 oceanic plates converge.
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What are glaciers?
This piece of evidence states that the scrape marks left by these shows that the continents were once connected.
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What is chemical weathering?
This is the process where a chemical reaction changes the color or the surface of a rock.
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This is the method used to find the epicenter of an earthquake.
This is the method used to find the epicenter of an earthquake.
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