Plate Tectonics and Earth’s Layers

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Middle School · Grades 6–8 · ages 11–13

Ten questions on how Earth is built and how it moves: the layers from the outside in, the ancient supercontinent, who proposed continental drift, how fast plates move, what happens at convergent and divergent boundaries, and how the Himalayas formed.

What you'll practice

  • Ordering Earth's layers from the outside in
  • Convergent and divergent plate boundaries
  • Where earthquakes most often happen
  • The ancient supercontinent and the theory of continental drift
  • How colliding plates build mountains

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  1. 1

    Which order lists Earth’s layers from the outside in?

  2. 2

    What name is given to the ancient supercontinent?

  3. 3

    Who proposed the theory of continental drift?

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