Plate Tectonics

Which layer of Earth contains the asthenosphere?

What type of stress occurs at a transform boundary?

Which layer of Earth is most dense?

What happens to temperature and pressure as you move from the crust to the inner core?

How do we know the composition of the layers of Earth below the crust?

What type of plate boundary is a mid-ocean ridge a part of?

What was the name of the large, ancient landmass that was composed of all the continents joined together?

What type of stress occurs at a divergent boundary?

Hypothesis that continents were connected in a single landmass that broke apart and drifted to their current position.

What type of plate boundary gives you Reverse Faults?

What are the two types of Earth's crust?

Who came up with the hypothesis of continental drift?

What is the plastic-like layer of Earth on which the lithospheric plates float?

What is the rigid layer of Earth that is ~100km thick, made of crust and part of the upper mantle?

Who came up with the theory of seafloor spreading?

Large section of Earth's oceanic or continental crust and upper mantle that moves around on the asthenosphere?

What is a feature caused by continental divergence?

What theory states that plates move around on the asthenosphere?

Which layer of Earth has the coolest average temperature?

What evidence in rocks supports the theory of seafloor spreading?

What is the Moho Layer?

What type of stress occurs at a convergent boundary?

Which of Earth's crust is most dense?

What transfers heat in the Earth's interior and is the driving force for plate tectonics?

Which piece of evidence would best support that continents were at one time near the south pole?

Which layer of the Earth has the highest average temperature?

Feature of a convergent plate boundary, oceanic vs. oceanic

What type of plate boundary do strike-slip faults occur at?

What is the name of the super-continent that Wegener based his continental drift on?

Feature of continental vs. continental collision:

Which of the following layers of Earth is liquid?

Where on Earth will you find the oldest rocks?

At which type of plate boundary do Earth's plates slide past each other?

Who came up with the theory of seafloor spreading?

At what type of plate boundary do normal faults occur?

What feature of a divergent boundary is found on the ocean floor?

What is the theory that new seafloor is formed when magma is forced upward toward the surface at a mid-ocean ridge?

What feature of a convergent boundary is associated with subduction zones and volcanoes?