Inside the Earth Study Guide

What type of boundary is plates pushing away from each other?

What was the last supercontinent called?

What did Wagener base the theory of continental drift on?

What is the fault when the hanging wall drops?

What are the plates of the Earth are moved around by?

What type of boundaries result in normal faults?

What is the layer of the Earth that contains the tectonic plates?

What was the single large ocean that surrounded Pangaea called?

What did scientists use to determine that the outer core of the Earth is liquid?

What type of boundary is plates sliding past each other

What is the layer that is more pliable; like puddy?

What is an upward folding rock?

What type of boundary results in reverse faults?

Anticline and syncline are the result of rocks being

What is an area of huge mountains underwater that continues to grow?

What type of boundary is plates moving towards each other? --> <--

A Mid Ocean Ridge is the result of a what type of boundary?

A transform boundary often results in

What occurs when rocks bend due to stress?

At a convergent boundary, What happens when an oceanic plate hits a continental plate?

Who came up with the continental drift theory in 1913?

Seismic waves move at a different speeds depending on...?

What happens when two continental plates collide?

What is the layer where we live?

What type of plate is mafic, make of dark and dense basalt

A strike–slip fault is the result of what type of boundary?

What type of plate is made primarily of silicates, made of lighter rock, felsic

What layer is directly below the lithosphere?

What ocean is growing due to sea floor spreading?

Earth's Outer Core is...

What crust is denser than the other

Volcanic Mountains are formed when magma reaches the surface.