Alfred Wegener
What is he known for?
What is continental drift?
What was the SUPER continent called?
What is Pangaea?
How many types of plates are there? Name both.
In a convection current, hot material does this, while cooler material sinks?
What is rise?
What does Divergent do?
What is divide?
Alfred Wegener noticed that the coastlines of these two continents, separated by the Atlantic, fit together like puzzle pieces?
Where is South America and Africa?
Can the continents move?
What is yes?
How many miles do tectonic plates go underground?
What is 62 miles?
What type of liquid can you boil to show convection?
What is water?
What does Convergent do?
What is Collide?
What did he think the continents looked like?
What is a jigsaw puzzle?
When did scientists first consider continental drift?
When was 1960?
How many total plates on earth?
What is 17?
If earths core eve cooled down completely what would happen?
What is stopping?
What does transform do?
What is slide?
When did he make his theory public?
When was 1912?
What was the new theory connected to continental drift?
What are plate tectonics?
Are the tectonic plates located in the lithosphere or the asthenosphere?
What is the lithosphere?
When a convection current pulls plates apart under the ocean, it creates a "ridge"; when it pulls them together, it creates one of these deep underwater features?
What is a trench?
This is the average speed at which continents drift every year, which is about the same speed your fingernails grow?
What is 2.5cm or 1 inch?
In what country did Alfred Wegener die?
Where is Greenland?
What Is 1 kind of fossil that was found on complete different continents?
What was mesosaurus?
How many plates are under North America?
what is 4?
Scientists believe the mantle is solid, but it moves like this thick, sticky substance you might put on a pancake?
What is syrup?
This is the name of the huge, single world ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea?
What was Panthalassa?