Continental Drift
The scientist that came up with this theory after noticing how the continents fit together like a puzzle.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This type of boundary moves away from its neighbor.
What is a divergent boundary?
This type of rock is created through cementation and compaction as layers of sediment get fused together.
What is sedimentary rock?
Feature where two plates are pushed away from each other in the middle of the ocean. Magnetic striping provided a clue to plate tectonics.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
Found at 0 degrees latitude, divides the planet into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
Evidence that plants and animals are found on different continents that match up across oceans and nowhere else.
What is fossil evidence?
This type of boundary creates a shearing force and is the site of most earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary?
This type of rock is the result of cooling magma (intrinsic) or lava (extrinsic).
What is igneous rock?
Deep trenches are formed off-shore at this type of boundary.
What is a convergent boundary? OR What is a subduction zone?
Found at 0 longitude, divides the planet into eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Similar types of rock of a similar age found on continent across the Atlantic.
What is geologic evidence?
This type of boundary literally translates to mean that the edges come together.
What is a convergent boundary?
This type of rock is formed when tremendous pressure and heat is applied. A diamond is an example of this type of rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
The San Andreas Fault is the most famous boundary of this type in the United States.
What is a transform boundary?
The way we can remember which direction is East and which is West.
What is WE not EW?
The law that states that the rocks found deep in the earth are older than those found higher up.
What is the Law of Superposition?
The movement of the oceanic crust under the continental crust creating volcanoes and ocean trenches.
What is subduction?
The layer of the earth that contains the aesthenosphere and is responsible for the movement of the plates.
What is the mantle?
This is formed when a continent is ripped in two on land.
What is a rift valley?
The compass rose provides this information.
What are the cardinal directions: North, East, South, and West.
The mechanics/process that move the crustal plates.
What is convection currents?
This region in the Pacific that is famous for its continuous geologic activity.
What is the Ring of Fire?
The layer of the Earth that is found at the center.
What is the core?
The upper part of the Ring of Fire is this type of boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
The order are they written in when writing a location using latitude and longitude.
What is latitude and then longitude.