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| Scientist who studies the forces that make and shape the earth |
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| Shape the surface by building up mountains |
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| slowly wear away features on the earth like mountains |
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| There are 7 great land massessurrounded by oceans |
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| Earthquakes produce these and help scientists study inside the earth |
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| The outer layer or skin of the earth |
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| Layer of hot rock below the crust |
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| The upper most part of the mantle made of mostly solid rock |
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| Soft layer insde the mantle just above the core |
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| The center of the earth that conains a layer of molten magma and a solid metal center |
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| Heat transfer through space. i.e. the sun heating the earth |
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| Heat transfer by direct contact. i.e. spoon in a pot of boiling water |
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| Heat transfer by movement of heated fluid. i.e. boiling water or the mantle heating magma |
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| Supercontinent of all land masses at one time connected |
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| Theory of how continents slowly moved over the earth's surface |
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| 3 Pieces of Evidence of Pangea |
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1. Landforms fit together like a puzzle
2. Same fossils on different continents
3. Climate a now frozen island has tropical fossils |
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| Where the sea floor spreads apart and new material is added to the ocean floor |
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| A deep hole in the ocean where the crust gets pushed down into the mantle |
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| The process where the crust sinks into the trench and down into the mantle |
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| Lithosphere is broken into these pieces that float on top of the magma in the mantle |
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| Theory that states the pieces of the earth are in constant motion driven by convection currents |
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| Breaks in the earth's crust |
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| Place where two plates slide past each other |
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| Place where two plates move apart |
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