1: How many earthquakes occur every year around the world?
-There is 2,000 average strong earthquakes and large eruption occur every year.
2: What is the Tectonics Theory? Explain.
- Tectonics theory states that the surface of the earth is not fixed and eternal, but is in constant, ever-changing motion. Mountains rise and fall, oceans open and close, and life flourishes because of tectonic activity. Put simply, plate tectonics explains how the world works.
3: Where do the Tectonic forces originate?
- It originate deep within the earth
4: What are Earth’s 3 main layers?
- Central core, thick mantle, thin outer crust.
5: Where is Tectonic activity concentrated?
- It concentrated in the upper 700 km of the planet.
6: What is the Lithosphere? Where is it located?
- Is encases the entire earth but is broken into pieces, fused by the crust and outer mantle.
7: What is the Asthenosphere? Why is it important to plate tectonics?
- The Asthenosphere is the mantle, it can flow so that the plates on top can move.
8: How fast do plates move (average?)
- Just like how our nails grow.
9: What are the 3 types of plate boundaries?
- Divergent, transform, and convergent.
10: What happens at Divergent Boundaries? Where are these mostly located?
- At Divergent boundaries the plates pull apart, there are frequent earthquakes here. These boundaries are found in the ocean.
11: What kind of rock is Oceanic Crust made of?
- Basalt.
12: What happens at Convergent Boundaries? What is often formed? Explain.
- The plates collide together. Mountains are usually formed at these boundaries when the plate buckles.
13: What is Granite? Where is it found?
- Granite is made of magma formed from melting plates. It is found at the edge of continents.
14: What happens at Transform Boundaries? What is special about transform boundaries?
- The plates here slide across each other, at transform boundaries no magma is formed.
-There is 2,000 average strong earthquakes and large eruption occur every year.
2: What is the Tectonics Theory? Explain.
- Tectonics theory states that the surface of the earth is not fixed and eternal, but is in constant, ever-changing motion. Mountains rise and fall, oceans open and close, and life flourishes because of tectonic activity. Put simply, plate tectonics explains how the world works.
3: Where do the Tectonic forces originate?
- It originate deep within the earth
4: What are Earth’s 3 main layers?
- Central core, thick mantle, thin outer crust.
5: Where is Tectonic activity concentrated?
- It concentrated in the upper 700 km of the planet.
6: What is the Lithosphere? Where is it located?
- Is encases the entire earth but is broken into pieces, fused by the crust and outer mantle.
7: What is the Asthenosphere? Why is it important to plate tectonics?
- The Asthenosphere is the mantle, it can flow so that the plates on top can move.
8: How fast do plates move (average?)
- Just like how our nails grow.
9: What are the 3 types of plate boundaries?
- Divergent, transform, and convergent.
10: What happens at Divergent Boundaries? Where are these mostly located?
- At Divergent boundaries the plates pull apart, there are frequent earthquakes here. These boundaries are found in the ocean.
11: What kind of rock is Oceanic Crust made of?
- Basalt.
12: What happens at Convergent Boundaries? What is often formed? Explain.
- The plates collide together. Mountains are usually formed at these boundaries when the plate buckles.
13: What is Granite? Where is it found?
- Granite is made of magma formed from melting plates. It is found at the edge of continents.
14: What happens at Transform Boundaries? What is special about transform boundaries?
- The plates here slide across each other, at transform boundaries no magma is formed.