Morgan Stewart

5. a large area of land that is believed to exist long ago and consists of the lands of the southern hemisphere and India.
6. boundaries- the location where 2 plates meet.
10. between the crust and the core.
12. molten rock material within the Earth.
15. drift- a slow movement of the continents on a deep-seated viscous core within the Earth.
17. the action of the weather conditions altering the color, texture, composition, or form of expused objects.
20. core- the inner most part of the Earth is the core.
21. currents- a stream of fluid propelled by thermal convection.
22. when two blocks of the Earth slip past eachothe
24. a hard surface layer around the Earth.

1. features on Earth's surface that make up terrain.
2. ridge- a sea-floor mountain system formed by plate tectonics.
3. molten rock that is issued by issues from a volcano.
4. something of explosively violent pot ential.
7. volcanos that have not erupted in a long time but are expected to erupt in the future.
8. a supercontinent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth.
9. flow- chaotic mixture of rock fragments, gas, and ash.
11. a hypothetical landmass in the northern hemisphere near the end of the Paleozoic era.
13. core- the liquid layer of the Earths core, located between the inner core and mantle.
14. Wegener- German geologist who proposed the theory of continental drift.
15. one of the 6 or 7 great divisions of land.
16. tectonics- the process of tectonic plate movements
18. a moving fluid mass composed of volcanic debris and water.
19. the action or process of eroding.
23. Andreas fault- to transform boundaries between 2 major plates of the Earths crust.