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  • HAS A CONSTANT MOTION AND TRVALES FEW CM EVERY YEAR
    TECTONIC PLATES
  • A LAYER WHERE PLATE FLOATS AND INVOLVES TECTONIC PLATE MOVEMENTS
    ATHENOSPHERE
  • THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE CRUST AND THE MANTLE
    EARTH'S CRUST
  • IT WAS THE DATE WHEN ANDRIJA MOHOROVICIC DISCOVERED THE EARTH'S CRUST
    1909
  • THE EARTH'S CRUST WAS HOW MANY KM BENEATH THE OCEAN BASINS?
    8KM
  • THE EARTH'S CRUST WAS HOW MANY KM BENEATH THE CONTINENTAL SURFACES?
    32KM
  • IT IS THE TOOL USED TO MEASURE THE EARTHQUAKE OR MAGNITUDE
    SEISMOGRAPH
  • IT WAS THE GRAPH RECORED AND BY THE SEISMOGRAPH
    SEISMOGRAM
  • THE SEISMOGRAM WAS PERFECTED BY A BRITISH SCIENTIST NAMED?
    JOHN MILNE
  • IT IS THE INCREASE OF THE VELOCITY OF SEISMIC WAVES
    MOHOROVICIC DISCONTINUITY
  • WHO DISCOVERED THE MOHOROVICIC DISCONTINUITY?
    ANDRIJA MOHOROVICIC
  • IT WAS THE OUTERMOST LAYER OF THE EARTH AND WAS THE THINNEST
    CRUST
  • IT IS A LAYER THAT LIES BENEATH THE CRUST
    MANTLE
  • THE MANTLE HAS A THICKNESS OF ALMOST HOW MANY KM?
    2900KM
  • IT IS MADE OUT OF ROCKS THAT IS RICH IN FE VUT POOR IN SILICA
    UPPER MANTLE
  • THE UPPER MANTLE HAS _____KM THICK?
    400KM
  • THE UPPER MANTLE COMPRIMISES ____% OF THE EARTH'S MASS
    10%
  • IT IS DENSER THAN THE UPPER MANTLE
    LOWER MANTLE
  • IT IS THE INNERMOST LAYER AND WAS MADE UP OF NE AND FI
    CORE
  • THE OUTER PART OF THE CORE IS?
    LIQUID
  • THE INNER PART OF THE CORE IS?
    SOLID
  • THE OUTER PART OF THE CORE HAS A THICKNESS OF ____KM
    2100KM
  • THE INNER PART OF THE CORE HAS A THICKNESS OF ____KM
    1300KM
  • THE HOME OF THE WORLDS ACTIVE VOLCANOES
    PACIFIC RING OF FIRE
  • REVEALS THE COLLISION OF AFRICAN AND INDO AMERICAN PLATES WITH THE SOUTHERN MARGIN OF EURASIAN PLATE
    ALPINE HIMALAYAN BELT
  • IT MAKES UP THE EARTH'S LANDMASSES
    CONTINENTAL CRUST
  • A CRUST THAT CAN BE FOUND IN THE OCEAN FLOOR AND THINNER THAN THE CONTINENTAL CRUST
    OCEANIC CRUST
  • HE IS A GERMAN METEOROLOGIST AND GEOPHYSICIST AND ALSO THE PROPONENT OF THE CONTINENTAL DRIFT
    ALFRED WEGENER
  • IT IS THE MOVEMENTS OF MATERIALS CAUSED BY THE DIFFERENCE IN THEIR TEMPERATURE
    CONVECTION CURRENT
  • WHAT IS THE FULL NAME OF ALFED WEGENER?
    ALFRED LOTHAR WEGENER
  • HE IS CONSIDERED AS THE FOUNDING FATHER OF THE UNIFYING THEORY OF TECTONIC PLATES AND ALSO THE ONE WHO PROPOSED THE SEAFLOOR SPREADING
    HARRY HESS
  • WHAT IS THE FULL NAME OF HARRY HESS?
    HARRY HAMMOND HESS
  • IT IS A THEORY WHERE BASALTIC MAGMA FROM THE MANTLE RISES TO CREATE NEW OCEAN FLOOR AT MID OCEAN RIDGES
    SEAFLOOR SPREADING THEORY
  • A PROCESS WHERE ONE PLATE CONTAINING OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE DESCENDS BENEATH THE ADJACENT PLATE
    SUBDUCTION
  • WHEN DID THE TECTONIC PLATE THEORY WAS DEVELOPED?
    1960s
  • THE FOSSILS OF MESOSAURUS WERE FOUND IN _________ AND ______
    ARGENTINA AND AFRICA
  • IT IS AN EXTINCT GENUS REPTILE FROM THE EARLY PERMIAN OF SOUTH AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA
    MESOSAURUS
  • IT IS CLOSELY RELATED TO MAMMALS
    CYGNONATHUS
  • FOSSILS OF CYGNONATHUS WERE FOUND IN ______ AND _______
    BRAZIL AND AMERICA
  • THEY ARE HERBIVOROUS GENUS THAT LIVED AROUND 250MILLIONS YEARS
    LYSTROSAURUS