1.
- What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?
2.
- What is the layer beneath the Earth's crust called?
3.
- What is the innermost part of the Earth called?
4.
Plates - What are the large pieces of the Earth's crust that move called?
5.
- Where do most earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
6.
- What was the name of the supercontinent that existed 250 million years ago?
7.
Wegener - Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
8.
- What drives the movement of tectonic plates?
9.
- What type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move apart?
10.
- What type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move towards each other?
11.
- What type of plate boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other?
12.
Ridge - What is the name of the ridge that goes through Iceland ?
13.
- What is an example of a mountain range formed by a convergent boundary?
14.
Andreas Fault - What is an example of a transform boundary?
15.
- What forms when magma reaches the Earth's surface?
16.
- What is the shaking of the Earth's surface due to the movement of tectonic plates?
17.
- What is the area around the Pacific Ocean with many earthquakes and volcanoes called?
18.
- What is the process called when one tectonic plate moves under another?
19.
Valley - What forms at a divergent boundary within a continent?
20.
- What is molten rock beneath the Earth's surface called?
21.
- What is molten rock called when it reaches the Earth's surface?
22.
- What scale is used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake?
23.
- What instrument is used to detect and record earthquakes?
24.
- What is the point on the Earth's surface directly above the earthquake's focus called?
25.
- What is a large sea wave caused by an underwater earthquake called?
