Plate Tectonics
This evidence supports the theory of plate tectonics.
What is
Fossil distribution
Shape of coastlines
Age of oceanic crust?
This is one piece of evidence for Earth’s formation from ancient meteorites.
Radiometric dating of meteorites
This process helps form mountain ranges?
What is subduction.
This drives the thermal convection currents in Earth’s mantle?
WHat is heat from Earth’s core?
This is an example of mechanical weathering.
What is waters ability to freeze and expand (frost wedging)?
This is the main cause of the movement of tectonic plates.
What is Thermal Convection?
Ancient Earth materials, such as zircon crystals, play in understanding Earth's history because...
What is they help estimate the age of Earth.
What is the outcome of the Rock Cycle?
What is forming new rocks and reshaping Earth's surface. Or recycling rocks.
Thermal convection contribute to the movement of tectonic plates through....
What is the convection current that allows the plates to slide over them?
This is waters role in the weathering of rocks?
What is dissolving minerals, which weaken and break apart rock?
Oceanic crust is __________compared to continental crust?
What is younger?
Meteorites help scientists understand the formation of Earth because they contain similar ______ which is similar to early Earth.
What is materials?
This feature is most commonly associated with divergent plate boundaries?
What is Mid-ocean ridges?
This layer of Earth is involved in thermal convection that drives plate tectonics.
What is the Mantle?
Water contributes to the formation of soil through...
What is transporting rock particles that form soil?
These are the three types of plate boundaries and what happens at the boundaries.
What is Divergent(spread apart), convergent(come together), transform(slide past each other).
This method is commonly used to date ancient Earth materials.
What is Radiometric (or absolute) dating.
Which is NOT true about how Earth's processes operate at different temporal scales?
a) Faster processes include weathering, earthquakes, and volcanoes
b) Slower process include weathering, earthquakes and volcanoes
c) Slower processes include the formation of mountains.
d) Slower processes include the formation of metamorphic rock.
What is slower process include weathering, earthquakes and volcanoes.
These geological processes cause the “Ring of Fire”?
What are Plates colliding at different boundaries causing many earthquakes and volcanoes?
These processes are water's effect on Earth’s surface processes.
What is weathering and erosion?
Discuss the formation of valleys.
This process is responsible for the formation of new oceanic crust? (contains the word sea)
What is seafloor spreading.
This evidence suggests that the planets in our solar system formed from the same dust and gas cloud.
What is the similar chemical composition of meteorites and planets.
The formation of ocean-floor features forms at ________, while continental features form through _________.
What is mid-ocean ridges and plate collisions.
This internal process fuels the Rock Cycle.
What is thermal convection?
Water influences erosion by...
What is carrying sediment away from rocks and landscapes.
This evidence suggests that the continents were once connected to a supercontinent (Pangea).
What is...
Similar rock formations on different continents
Matching fossil records across continents
Continental shapes that fit together?
This is the oldest dated material found in Australia?
What is zircon crystal.
What process creates deep ocean trenches?
What is subduction of tectonic plates?
What are all three rock types?
What are Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic?
This is an example of how water shapes landforms over time.
What is the creation of river valleys through erosion.