Sea Floor
The Earth
The Continental Drift
Plate Tectonics
Mix-It-Up!
100
The WWII geologist who developed the the Theory of Sea Floor Spreading
Who is Harry Hess?
100
What are the layers of the earth-starting from the interior and moving outward?
What is inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?
100
The German meteorologist who developed the Theory of the Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegner?
100
This word means single, huge continent.
What is Pangaea?
100
The San Andreas Fault is created by this type of plate boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
200
The technology used to read the topography of the ocean floor.
What is sonar?
200
The two layers of the crust
What is the asthenosphere and lithosphere?
200
The three pieces of evidence to support the Continental Drift Theory.
What are rocks/mountain ranges, climate clues, and fossils?
200
The Theory of Plate Tectonics is a combination of what two theories?
What are Sea-floor Spreading and the Continental Drift?
200
Sound waves travel on solids, liquids, and gasses know as this.
What is a medium?
300
Name 2-3 underwater features that are found on the ocean floor and created from the sea floor movement.
What are volcanoes, mid-ocean ridge, The Ring of Fire, and plate boundaries?
300
The two types of crust
What is oceanic and continental?
300
The plant fossil found on several continents.
What is the Glossopteris Fossil?
300
Three plate boundaries
What is convergent, divergent and transform?
300
The Himalaya Mountains are created by this boundary type.
What is a convergent boundary?
400
Molten rock hardens at a mid-ocean ridge and is layered in what age order?
What is youngest to oldest rock?
400
The plastic-like layer of the crust.
What is the asthenosphere?
400
The freshwater reptile that was separated by salt water oceans.
What is the Mesosaurus?
400
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is created by this type of fault.
What is divergent?
400
90% of all earthquakes occur along this plate boundary which is found in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
Minerals found in the sea floor are made of iron; therefore, creating reversals that possess what property?
What is magnetism which creates a Magnetic Time Scale?
500
This layer of the earth is solid and acts as a magnet.
What is the inner core?
500
This U.S. mountain range is similar in composition to the ranges found in Greenland and western Europe.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
500
The cycle of heating, rising, cooling and sinking is the driving force behind the movement of the plates.
What are convection currents?
500
What are the three types of evidence which support the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
What are volcanoes, formation of mountain ranges and earthquakes?
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