Plate Tectonics

The crust is the thickest _________

What do scientists look at to study Earth's Interior?

The Asthenosphere is part of which layer?

What layer has the most pressure?

A type of boundary that forms when two plate slide past each other in opposite directions

This ocean is expanding (getting bigger)

Subduction and deep ocean trenches occur at this type of boundary

All of the following are evidence of sea floor spreading except

___________________ is when an oceanic plate dives under a continental plate

Earth's inner core is

________ states that pieces of Earth's crust are in slow, constant motion

Which layer is the thinnest?

What part of the mantle is soft and bends like plastic?

Which of the following is not evidence that supports the theory of continental drift?

Which of the following layers are a liquid?

Which layer of the earth has convection currents that cause the plates to move?

This type of boundary forms when two plates move away from each other

What is one land feature that forms when two continental plate converge?

This type of boundary is created when two plates collide with one another

Mid-ocean ridges and sea-floor spreading occur at this type of boundary

The lithosphere is broken into separate sections called

What is the correct order of the Earth's layers from the outermost to the innermost?