Chapter 7 "Plate Tectonics" Review Questions

What is lithosphere mean?

How many major tectonic plates are there?

What does asthenosphere mean?

What sphere is the middle sphere?

What term means come together?

What is the strong lower part of the mantle?

What part of the Earth makes up most of the Earth's mass?

Does molten rock flow from the ocean floor?

What layer is made of solid rock?

What layer is the rock layer?

Toward the center of the Earth,the temperature and pressure _____.

The Oceanic Crust is _____&_____than continental crust?

What is formed when magma reaches the Earth's surface?

What is the average thickness of the Continental crust?

What is the lithosphere made up of?

What layer is made up of the tectonic plates?

What is the outer core made of?

What occurs at a divergant boundary?

Who first developed the theory of continental drift?

Name an example of a convergent boundary?

What occurs when 2 tectonic plates move away from 1 another?

How fast your fingernails grow is also how fast the _____ moves.

What layer is made of solid rock that flows very slowly?

Name an example of a transform boundary?

The underwater mountain range in the Atlantic Ocean is called the_____.

What layer lies beneath the mantle?

What is the core mostly made of?

The layer is the outermost, rigid layer?

What does mesosphere mean?

What boundary sometimes has a subduction zone?

What process by which hot material deep within Earth rises whole cooler material surface sinks?

What word means all the land masses?