The geologist that

first proposed the

Alfred Wegener
theory of continental
drift
Wegener's idea that the
continents slowly
continental drift
moved over Earth's
surface

This is made mostly of

the metals iron and
Core
nickel, and consists of
two parts

This layer is made of

solid rock that includes
Crust
both dry land and the
ocean floor

The main layers of

Crust, Mantle, Core
Earth
 discovered seafloor
spreading through the clues
Henry Hess on the ocean floor and
offered it as an explanation
for mid-ocean ridges

A dense ball of solid

inner core
metal

Made of rock that is

very hot, but solid. It is
Mantle
about 3,000 kilometers
thick

A layer of molten
Outer core metal surrounding
the inner core

A supercontinent
Pangea made up of all the
major continents
 The reason for
Plate Tectonics
continental drift

The deeper down

Pressure inside Earth you go,
the greater the...

The _____________ inside

temperature Earth increases as
depth increases