Plate Tectonic Theory
Layers of the Earth
Plate Tectonics and Boundaries
Mechanisms of plate movement
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
100
The father of Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
100
The Compositional layers of the Earth.
What is the crust, mantle, and core.
100
The three types of tectonic plate boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform
100
The mechanism that occurs in the mantle below a convergent plate boundary.
What is slab pull
100
The two types of boundaries where volcanoes form.
What is a Convergent and Divergent boundary?
200
The hypothesis that states our continents broke from one large landmass and slowly drifted apart.
What is continental drift?
200
The Physical layers of the Earth.
What is the Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer core, and Inner core
200
Land Formations that occur when oceanic crust subducts under continental crust.
What are volcanoes and "volcanic" mountain ranges
200
The three mechanisms that cause the movement of Earth's tectonic plates.
What are mantle convection, slab pull, and ridge push.
200
The geologic event that occurs at a transform boundary and can result in a tsunami.
What is an earthquake?
300
The name of the super-continent that Earth's continents broke away from.
What is Pangaea
300
The Compositional layer of the Earth that is the thinnest.
What is the crust
300
Formation that occurs at a divergent boundary in the Earth's oceans.
What is a mid ocean ridge and the formation of oceanic crust
300
The Compositional layer of the Earth where convection occurs.
What is the Mantle?
300
The geological event that happens at a Transform boundary.
What is an Earthquake?
400
Pieces of the Lithosphere that slide along the Asthenosphere.
What are tectonic plates
400
The two physical layers that form the single Compositional layer of the core.
What are the inner core and outer core
400
The motion and process that happens at a divergent boundary.
What happens when two tectonic plates move away from each other forming a rift valley or mid ocean ridge.
400
The type of boundary where ridge push occurs.
What is a divergent boundary?
400
A location where a column of extremely hot mantle rock, called a mantle plume, rises through the Asthenosphere.
What is a hot spot?
500
The five pieces of evidence that supported Alfred Wegners continental drift hypothesis.
What are matching fossils, coastlines, land-forms, rock layers, and past climates.
500
The Physical Layer that includes the rigid upper portion of the mantle and the crust.
What is the Lithosphere
500
The name of the 8 major tectonic plates.
What are the Pacific, North American, South American, African, Antarctic, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, and Nazca plates?
500
The process that forms a convection current.
What happens when hot fluid material rises and cold fluid material sinks?
500
The name for the area around the Pacific plate where the majority of Earth's Volcanoes form.
What is the Ring of Fire?
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