Study Guide Layers Of The Earth's And Plate Tectonics

Front 1

The composition of the inner core

Back 1

Iron and Nickel

Front 2

The main rocks that make up the oceanic and Continental crust are

Back 2

Granite and Basalt

Front 3

The layer of the mantle below the lithosphere

Back 3

Asthenosphere

Front 4

Where is the thickest layer of the crust is located

Back 4

Under the mountain

Front 5

What materials make up the lithosphere

Back 5

Crust and upper mantle

Front 6

What layer is below the continental crust

Back 6

Mantle

Front 7

Of the four layers of the earth, which layer is the thinnest and has the lowest density

Back 7

Crust

Front 8

Which layer if earth is the thickest

Back 8

Mantle

Front 9

Why is the mantle more dense than the crust

Back 9

Density rises with depth with pressure

Front 10

List the layers of Earth in order from the top down

Back 10

Crust, mantle, outer, and inner core

Front 11

The process in which the ocean flows sinks below a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle

Back 11

Subduction

Front 12

This causes the movement of tectonic plates

Back 12

Convection currents

Front 13

Where do mountain normally occur

Back 13

At convergent boundaries

Front 14

What causes the movement of tectonic plates

Back 14

Convection currents

Front 15

What causes the forming of mountains and volcanoes along the edge of a continent

Back 15

Convergent

Front 16

What type of plate boundary occurs at the ring of fire in the Pacific Ocean

Back 16

Convergent

Front 17

What evidence have scientists collected that proves the breaking apart pangaea

Back 17

Same fossils and rock layers

Front 18

Plates that slide past each other with little or on up or down movement

Back 18

Transform

Front 19

Plates that move away from each other are what kind of boundary

Back 19

Divergent

Front 20

The movement of continents away from each other is called

Back 20

Plate tectonics