Pass the Plate Tectonics
This is the rigid part of the plates made of oceanic crust or continental crust and upper mantle.
What is the Lithosphere?
When continental plates move away from each other they form this.
What is a Rift Valley?
This man proposed the idea of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This occurs in the mantle and is thought to be the force behind plate tectonics.
What are Convection Currents?
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Who is Peter Parker?
The youngest rocks in the ocean floor are located at the mid-ocean ____________.
What are ridges?
Where two plates scrape past each other.
What are Transform Boundaries?
What is the Asthenosphere?
This means "all land".
What is Pangaea?
This superhero always carries an indestructible shield.
Who is Captain America?
Oceanic plates are pushed down into the upper mantle in these.
What are Subduction Zones?
Where oceanic-continental crust and continental-continental crust can come together.
What are Convergent Boundaries?
The hypothesis that continents have moved slowly to their current locations.
What is continental drift?
This is where new ocean crust is formed.
What are Ocean Ridges?
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What is Gotham City?
Continental drift occurs because of this.
What is Seafloor Spreading?
Plates move apart at these boundaries.
What are Divergent Boundaries?
This is the name of the ancient supercontinent.
What is Pangaea?
This is where Ocean crust is recycled.
What are Deep Sea Trenches?
Who is Leonardo?
The seafloor spreading theory was proposed by this man.
Who is Harry Hess
The results of plate movement can be seen here.
The presence of the same types of these on several continents supports the idea of continental drift.
What is fossils, rocks, and climate evidence?
This is the theory that describes Earth's crust and upper mantle as being broken into sections.
What is Plate Tectonics?
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Who is DareDevil?