Continental Drift
Who developed the Continental Drift Theory?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The movement of a Convergent Boundary.
What is colliding?
The movement of a divergent boundary.
What is dividing?
The movement of a transform boundary.
What is sliding?
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Where does this person work?
Who is Spongebob Squarepants and The Krusty Krab?
Which two continents did Wegener use as evidence for continental fit?
What is South America and Africa?
Made when two continental crust collide.
What is a mountain?
Made when two continental crust divide.
What is a rift valley?
What is made when two continental crust slide?
What is an earthquake?
What name is given to the cold, rigid outermost rock layer of the Earth?
What is the lithosphere?
What was the name of the super continent proposed by Wegener?
What is Pangaea?
Made when continental and oceanic crust collide.
What are trenches?
Made when two oceanic crust divide?
What is new ocean floor?
What is the area called where two plates are next to each other at a transform boundary?
What is a fault line?
The boundary where two plates meet is called this?
What is plate boundary?
What did Harry Hess discover?
What is seafloor spreading.
What is it called when a thicker layer of Earth slides under a thinner layer of Earth?
What is subduction?
Give an example of continental divergent plates.
What is East African Rift Valley?
A famous fault at a transform boundary we spoke of in California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
The plastic-like layer of the Earth that enables the plates to move is known as this?
What is asthenosphere?
What were four pieces of evidence Wegener had to support his theory?
What is fossil evidence, mountains/rock layers, continental fit, and glacial?
What is responsible for the movement of tectonic plates?
What is convection currents?
What are the differences between continental and oceanic crust?
What is continental crust is less dense, older, and thicker?
What are the three plate boundaries, describe their movement, and give a landform that can be created at each.
What is convergent collides and makes mountains, trenches and volcanoes, divergent divides and makes rift valleys and mid-ocean ridges, and transform boundaries slide and make earthquakes?
Name the layers of the Earth-from inside out.
What is core-mantle-crust?