Plate Tectonics Review Game

Vocabulary

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The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart

What is the Continental Drift Theory

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A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface

What is tectonic plates.

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The thinnest layer of the Earth

What is the crust

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States that youngest rocks of ocean floor are closest to divergent boundaries, moving outward

What is seafloor spreading

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The theory that states that the lithosphere is broken into plates that in moving due to convection currents underneath them 

What is the plate tectonics

Structure of the Earth

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The specific layer where convection occurs is the _______________________.

What is the asthenosphere

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The thickest layer of the Earth

What is the mantle.

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The Earth gets ___ as you move into the center.

What is hotter

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The rigid part of the Earth including the crust and the upper mantle (makes up the plates of the Earth)

What is the lithosphere

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The Earth's crust is thinnest under the _____________________ and thickest under the _____________________.

What is thinnest under the ocean and thickest under the continents.

Continental Drift Theory

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____ and ____ have been found on different continents, providing evidence of continental drift.

Fossils and rock

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The evidence of continental drift that puts South America and Africa together because of the coastlines

What is the shape of the continents

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Created the Continental Drift Theory

Who is Alfred Wegener

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Pangaea existed this many millions of years ago

What is around 250 million years ago

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Continental Drift Theory was not accepted because it did not explain this

What is how the continents moved

Plate Tectonics

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Where the crust is destroyed at a plate boundary.  

What is a subduction zone

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The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary and ___________________ occurs here where new ocean floor is formed.

What is divergent boundary; sea-floor spreading

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Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these

What is a plate boundary

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This is the mechanism (what causes) the plates to move

What is convection cycles in the mantle

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The two types of convergent boundaries

What is subduction (0-C where volcanoes often occur) and collision (C-C where mountains are usually formed)

Miscellaneous

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_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.

What is earthquakes

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Hot air or liquid is less ________________ than cool air or liquide

What is dense

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The Himalayan mountains are the result of a ___________________________ boundary.

What is convergent boundary

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The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ____________________ boundary.

What is a transform boundary

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This person used sonar to map the bottom of the ocean and discovered the mid-ocean ridge in the Atlantic Ocean.

Who is Harry Hess!