Which layer of the earth do scientists think is responsible for the magnetic field around the Earth?

Which layer of the Earth is considered a ball of solid iron and nickel?

Which layer of the Earth is broken into plates?

What happens to pressure and temperature as one goes deeper into the Earth?

What is true about Earth’s core?

Which layer, below the crust of the Earth, moves due to convection currents?

What is the driving force for the movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates?

What does the cooler, denser fluid do in convection currents?

What would happen to convection currents if the interior of the earth were to cool down?

What is the large supercontinent that scientist think existed 300 million years ago called?

What evidence is provided by Alfred Wegener’s discovery of the same animal fossil on five continents that are now separated by ocean water?

Which form of evidence did NOT support the theory of sea floor spreading?

What evidence do magnetic stripes on the Earth’s sea floor provide?

What is the area where the ocean floor slides under a nearby plate and sinks back into the mantle called?

The Great Rift Valley in Africa is caused by continental plates sliding apart from each other. What is this movement called?

What is a break in the crust where masses of rock slip past each other?

Which landform is created when oceanic crust subducts beneath a continental crust?

What force inside Earth acts on rocks to change their shape and volume?

Which type of stress is caused by plate movement at a divergent boundary?

What carries energy from an earthquake away from the focus and through Earth’s interior?

Which type of rock forms when magma cools and solidifies?

What would likely happen to the rock cycle if Earth’s interior cooled so the movement of the plates stopped?

Which type of rock forms from heat and pressure inside the Earth?