Chapter 5 Lesson 1 and Lesson 2

Which layer of the Earth is responsible for the Earth's magnetic field?

Hot, fluid rock below Earth's surface is called______.

Which Earth layer is the thinnest?

Name the theory that Earth's surface is broken into pieces and moves over magma in the mantle?

What is the location east or west of the Prime Meridian called?

Which scientist first proposed the idea of Continental Drift?

Oceanic crust is ____than continental crust.

The slow movement of the continents over eons.

Which layer of Earth has strong convection currents which are responsible for crust movement?

What is the largest Earth layer?

Which forms at divergent boundaries?

The San Andres fault is an example of a ______.

What is Pangaea?

How many continents are there today?

The Great African Rift Valley is an example of what type of plate boundary?

What boundary is shown in the picture?

When tectonic plates collide and one slides under the other puncturing the mantle, it is called

The Himalayan Mountains occurred at what type of plate boundary?

The crust and the rigid part of Earth's mantle.

Continental Crust is_______than Oceanic Crust.

Which layer of the Earth is made up of two different kinds of layers: oceanic and continental?

The location north or south of the equator.

What rock type is found mostly in continental crust?

Which Earth layer is made of solid nickel and iron?

What is the only entirely liquid layer of the Earth?