Drifting Continents
The father of Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
The 3 layers of the Earth.
What is the crust, mantle, and core.
The three types of tectonic plate boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform
This rock is formed from the solidification of molten rock material.
What is Igneous rock.
The two types of boundaries where volcanoes form.
What is a Convergent and Divergent boundary?
The type of rock that makes up oceanic crust
What is Basalt
Land formations that occur when two continental crusts converge.
What are mountains
This rock is formed under great heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic rock.
The area on Earth's surface where rocks slip past each other, triggering an earthquake.
What is a fault
The type of rock that makes up continental crust.
What is the Granite.
Formation that occurs at a divergent boundary in the Earth's oceans.
What is a mid ocean ridge
This is process of rock breaking down by the force of ice, wind, water, etc.
What is weathering.
The geological event that happens at a Transform boundary.
What is an Earthquake?
The layer responsible for the magnetic field.
What is the core.
During this process, gravity pulls one edge of a plate down into the mantle.
What is subduction.
This is the process of particles squeezing together to form rocks.
The name for the area around the Pacific plate where the majority of Earth's Volcanoes form.
What is the Ring of Fire
The 3 pieces of evidence that supported Alfred Wegners continental drift hypothesis.
What are matching fossils, land-forms, and climates.
The layer that includes the rigid upper portion of the mantle and the crust.
What is the Lithosphere
This is the mechanism behind plates' movement.
What are convection currents.
This is the process responsible for granite to turn into gneiss.
What is heat and pressure.
A location where a column of extremely hot mantle rock rises through the Asthenosphere.
What is a hot spot