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What causes the movement of Tectonic Plates?
Convection current
What layer of Earth is made of mostly solid iron?
Inner core
What layer do the tectonic plates float on?
Asthenosphere
What is used to detect
earthquakes
?
Seismograph
Who developed the
Continental Drift Theory
?
Alfred
Wegener
What do you call the area where two tectonic plates meet?
Plate
boundaries
What is a boundary where two plates slide along each other?
Transform fault
boundaryy
What is the fastest and first wave to be recorded by the seismograph?
P Waves
or
Primary Waves
What did making a map of where earthquakes happened, show scientists?
Edges
of the
plate boundaries
What is the core mostly made out of?
Iron
and
nickel
What happens when a continental plate converges with a continental plate?
Mountains
/
mountain ranges
will be formed
What is the first instrument used in navigating the ocean floor?
SONAR
What hardens to form new rock at mid-ocean ridges?
Magma
What is the theory that the earth's surface is broken up into large pieces that float on top of the asthenosphere?
Plate tectonic
theory
What do you call the cracks that are made in the plates from all of the pushing and shoving?
Faults
What is known asthe longest mountain range underwater?
Mid-atlantic ridge
What is the type of tectonic plate boundary that sometimes has a subduction zone?
Convergent
What type of plate boundary is the Philippines?
Convergent
What type of plate boundary is Iceland?
Divergent
Sand Andreas Fault was formed because of the movement of which two plates?
North
America
and
Pacific
The lithosphere at the divergent plate boundary will uplift and move apart due to the rising of hot magma, known as?
Ridge push
How will you describe the normal polarity of the Earth?
Nmagnetic
=
Ngeographic
What is the freshwater reptile found in the continents of South America and Africa called?
Mesosaurus
What type of boundary is made when two plates collide?
Convergent