Tectonically cool peeps
Who was the cool German scientist that named Pangaea and had the theory of continental drift?
Alred Wegener
When scientists found similar plants and animals on the coasts of two continents, this was ________ evidence.
Fossil
When two boundaries come together, they are called...
Convergent plate boundaries
These two convergent boundaries come together to form volcanoes on land, like in Chile.
Oceanic and Continental
Wegeners supercontinent
Pangaea
Wegener's theory that was supported by the continents looking like they fit together like puzzle pieces but "drifted" apart.
Continental drift
Who was the fantastically amazing scientist that found evidence to support Wegener's theories by mapping the ocean floor?
Marie Tharp
When scientists discovered similar rock layers on the coast of two different continents, this was called.
Rock/mountain evidence
When two boundaries pull apart they are called...
Divergent boundaries
These two type of convergent boundaries come together to form volcanic island arcs.
Oceanic and Oceanic
Along with Volcanic island arcs this is formed when an oceanic plate dives under another.
Trench
The_________ is a rigid layer which shifts on the taffy like layer called the asthenosphere.
lithosphere
What was the name of the map that first mapped the ocean floor?
Tharp-Heezen
What piece of evidence that supported Wegeners theory that he could tell by looking at a map.
Continents look like they fit together like a puzzle.
When two boundaries slide past each other, they are called...
Transform boundaries
This type of boundary causes earthquakes...
Trick question...they all do.
This is when divergent boundaries come apart to create new crust
Sea-floor spreading
The plates of the lithosphere float on this malleable semiliquid zone in the upper mantle,
Asthenosphere