Fossils
Tectonic Plates
Tectonic Plates pt.2
Misc
True of False
100
What type of fossil is shown:
What is trace fossil?
100
Tectonic plates are a part of this layer of the Earth.
What is the lithosphere?
100
What type of boundary is the most destructive?
What is convergent boundary?
100
What is Pangea?
What is the name of the super continent that existed millions of years ago?
100
If subduction occurs faster than oceanic crust can be created, an ocean will expand.
False
200
What fossil is shown below:
What is carbon film?
200
Two tectonic plates that slide by each other.
What is transform boundary?
200
Which plate will subduct under the other? Oceanic or Continental?
What is oceanic crust?
200
The geological time scale is a record of what?
What is all the known history of everything that has occurred on Earth from the beginning.
200
Mid-ocean ridges form the longest mountain ranges on Earth.
True
300
How can fossils help us study our past world?
What is, seeing how organisms have changed over time and how the climate has changed over time.
300
Two tectonic plates that come together.
What is convergent boundary.
300
Deep ocean trenches occur along a ________________ boundary.
What is convergent?
300
What is superposition?
What is layering of rock, the oldest is at the bottom and the newest is at the top?
300
Divergent boundaries create valleys, sea-floor spreading and deep ocean trenches
False
400
What type of fossil is shown below:
What is petrified fossil?
400
Two plates that move apart.
What is divergent boundary?
400
Mid-ocean ridges occur along a _____________________ boundary.
What is divergent?
400
What is the driving force behind plate tectonics?
What are convection currents?
400
Alfred Wegener provided evidence from landforms, fossils and climate in support of his theory of plate tectonics.
False, continental drift
500
Name the 5 types of fossils.
What are petrified, preserved remains, trace, carbon film, and molds & casts?
500
A famous fault line located in California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
500
The process of _____________________ continually adds new crust to the ocean floor along both sides of the mid-ocean ridge.
What is sea-floor spreading?
500
What were the 5 pieces of evidence that Alfred Wegener used to support his theory?
What are rock samples, fossil collections, fit of continents, geologic features, paleoclimate?
500
Convergent boundaries make mountains, volcanos and deep ocean trenches.
True