Vocabulary
Continental Drift
Seafloor Spreading
Plate techtonics
Plate Boundaries
100
Sections of the earths crust and upper part of the mantle. What term is this?
What is Plate
100
Who created the Theory of the Continental Drift?
What is Alfred Wagner
100
Who Created the Theory of the Seafloor Spreading?
What is Harry Hess
100
What is earth's crust and upper mantle broken into?
What is Sections or Plates
100
Describe What Transform plates mean.
What is When 2 plates Rub against each other
200
A scientist who Proposed he theory of the Continental drift.
What is Alfred Wagner
200
A Map of Earth Looks like a ______ wen you put th continents together.
What is Puzzle
200
What device is used to detect Magnetic Fields
What is Magnometer
200
The plastic-like layer below the lithosphere is called what?
What is Asthenosphere
200
What are the Three Types of Plate Boundaries.
What is 1. Convergent 2. Divergent 3. Transform
300
The Plastic Layer of the Mantle located balow the lithosphere. What term is this?
What is Asthenosphere
300
Which two fossils support the Hypothesis of the Continental Drift?
What is Glossopteris and the Mesosaurus
300
Using what helped researchers discover Underwater ridges and valleys.
What is Sound waves
300
True or False. Plates are made of Stone.
What is False, Crust
300
True or False. Divergent Plates Create Mountain Ranges, Volcanoes, and subduction.
What is False Convergent Plates Create Mountain Ranges, Volcanoes, and subduction.
400
All of the crust and upper solid portion of the mantle. What term is this?
What is Lithosphere
400
This Mountain Range in U.S. is similar to Mountain Ranges in Greenland and Western Europe. What Mountain Range is this?
What is Appalachian Mountains
400
Scientist have determined that Earths ________ _____ has reversed itself many times in the past.
What is Magnetic Field
400
The Crust and the Mantle make up what?
What is Lithosphere
400
Separating Plate Create Rift Valleys and Sink holes. This kind of Boundary is what?
What is Divergent
500
The lines of a magnetic force run in the opposite way. What is this term?
What is Magnetic reversal
500
_______, ________ and _______ were the main clues that proved the continental drift.
What is Rocks, Fossils, and Climate
500
What Research ship began gathering information about the rocks on the seafloor.
What is Glomar Challenger
500
Movement of any plate mean _______ are happening to other Countries.
What is Change
500
When one Plate Slide or Rub against this creates __________.
What is Earthquakes
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