Continental Drift
What was the profession of the man that came up with continental drift?
Meteorologist/Weatherman
What do plate tectonics explain?
The structure of the earth. e.i( Crust, Mantel, Outer core, Inner core.)
What are convergent boundries?
What is a place where two tectonic plates collide.
What are divergent boundaries?
What is when two tectonics plates move away from each other.
What is caused by transform boundaries moving?
What are earthquakes.
What was the most recent supercontinent that was caused by continental drift?
What is Pangea?
What are three types of plate tectonics?
Convergent, Divergent, Transform boundries.
True or false, do convergent boundaries cause subduction zones?
What is true.
What do divergent boundaries cause?
What are Earthquakes, volcanoes, and oceans to form?
What are transformation boundaries?
What are plates sliding sideways past each other.
What are the natural leftovers that proved the continental drift theory
what are ancient fossils, rocks, and mountain ranges; and the locations of ancient climatic zones.
What do plate tectonics cause?
What is the movement of the continents.
What can convergent boundaries cause?
What is volcanoes
Where are most divergent boundaries located?
In the oceans
Do transform boundaries cause volcanoes?
No
Why was continental drift not an accepted theory?
There was no driving force for the continents to move
What was the big proof needed for plate tectonics to become a recognized theory?
seafloor spreading
What forms in the ocean at a convergent plate boundary?
What is a trench
How do we represent divergent boundaries with our hands?
put hands together and then pull them apart by moving the right hand right and the left hand left.
How do you represent a transform boundary with your hands?
You push your hands together and slide one hand away from you and the other towards.
Who came up with the theory of continental drift?
Who is Alfred Wegener
What is the cause of plate tectonics?
What are convection currents.
What are the 3 types of convergent boundaries?
What is ocean-ocean, ocean-continent, continent-continent.
How much do divergent boundaries move in a year?
About as much as a fingernail grows
What is the name of a famous transform boundary
the San Andreas fault