Forces Within Earth

Cards (8)

  • Earth's solid, thinnest, outermost layer is the___
    crust
  • beneath the crust is the ___, which is divided into the upper mantle, asthenosphere, and lower mantle
    mantle
  • the upper ___, which is made up of solid bedrock, contain most of Earth's mass.
    mantle
  • Alfred Wegener first proposed the continental drift theory, which states that there was once a super continent called ___. which separated and drifted apart over time.
    pangaea
  • the _________ tells that the surface of the Earth is divided into several plates that "float" along the asthenosphere.
    plate tectonic theory
  • A _________ plate boundary is formed when plates from opposite direction meet, causing one plate to be pushed beneath the other.
    convergent
  • A _________ plate boundary is formed when two tectonic plates move away from each other.
    divergent
  • the zone between two plates that slide horizontally past each other us called a _________
    transform