The theory of ___________ states that Earth’s crust and upper mantle are broken up into sections called plates.

Continental drift was first proposed by this scientist who noticed that the continents looked like a giant puzzle.

The continuous cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking that occurs in the mantle is called _________.

The boundary where plates slide past one another is called _______.

____________ rises at divergent plate boundaries, pushing plates apart.

If you wanted to find the oldest rocks in the oceans, you have to be near _____________.

Rift valleys, like the one forming in eastern Africa, are one of the features that form along this type of plate boundary.

The ________ are forming where Indo-Australian (India) plate collides into the Eurasian (Asia) plate.

Most volcanoes and earthquakes will occur

An opening in the Earth’s surface that erupts gas, lava, and ash is called a (an)

Magma that reaches the surface of the Earth is called________.

Earthquakes are produced by the _______ of broken rock underneath the surface.

The Richter scale is used to measure the __________ of an earthquake.

In the following list, which is the strongest earthquake, using the Richter scale?

During an earthquake, you would want to take shelter under a (an)

An earthquake under the ocean can cause a _______ to occur.

The presence of the same _____ on several continents supports the hypothesis of continental drift.

The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called ____.

Plates move apart at _____ boundaries

The super continent called ______ existed about 500 million years ago.

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