Plate Tectonics

Question 1

Crust

Answer 1

The outercrust shell of a rocky planet

Question 2

Mantle

Answer 2

Layer of molten rock between the crust and core.

Question 3

Core

Answer 3

Made upof mostly iorn. Sepertaed into the outer core and inner core.

Question 4

Tectonic Plate

Answer 4

The layer of rock that makes up the puter part of the earth including the crust and upper mantle

Question 5

Continental drift theroy

Answer 5

The theory that continets graduly driffted over time to their presant position.

Question 6

Asthenosphere

Answer 6

A thin layer of earth about 150 mles thick at the border between the mantle and the crust.

Question 7

Covection current

Answer 7

The prosses in witch the hotter parts of a gas or liquid rise to the top at the cooler denser parts sink

Question 8

Convection Boundry

Answer 8

When two techtonic plates come together

Question 9

Moutain

Answer 9

uplft of crustal pltes that for elevated landmass

Question 10

Volcanos

Answer 10

A vent or fissure in earth surface through witch witch magma and gasses are expelled

Question 11

divergent boundry

Answer 11

when techtonic plates split apart

Question 12

Transform boundray

Answer 12

when techtonic plates slide past eachother.

Question 13

Fault

Answer 13

Breaks in the crust the movment causes sesimic waves witch proudes earthquakes.

Question 14

Mid-ocean ridge

Answer 14

A long ridge of underwater volcanoes between two diverging oceanic plates.

Question 15

subduction zone

Answer 15

A place where one tectonic plate sinks under another and melts also forms a trench.

Question 16

Rift valley

Answer 16

A long narrow valley between two diverging continental plates.