Continental Drift
Plate Boundaries
Rocks
Fossils
Faults
100
What is Uniformitarianism?
The Earth's processes we see today are similar to those that occurred in the past.
100
A place where plates come together and either press together, move apart, or slide side by side.
plate boundary
100
How old is the Earth?
4.6 billions years old
100
Name the substance the fossilized insect is in.(jim,w~~_35.JPG)
Amber
100
What happens along fault lines?
earthquakes
200
One land mass or One gigantic continentent
Pangaea
200
Which boundary forms mountains?
Convergent boundary
200
This rock is formed from the heating and cooling of magma.
Igneous
200
What is Amber?
Tree sap
200
This fault leaves a hanging wall of rock or land.
Dip-slip
300
The German scientist who came up with the Theory of Continental Drift
Alfred Wegener
300
This boundary slides past one another causing grinding which we feel as earthquakes.
Transform boundary
300
This type of rock forms mainly at plate boundaries and is made from heat and pressure or both.
Metamorphic Rock
300
This fossil forms when sediment covers a dead organism and forms a cast around the remains.
Mold and casts
300
The San Andreas fault is an example of this type of fault.
Strike Slip Fault
400
Name the 3 pieces of evidence that support the theory of continental drift.
The puzzle pieces, continents fit together like a puzzle.
2. Fossil Evidence
3. Rock Evidence (Mountain ranges)
400
An easy way to remember this plate boundary is that the plates, dive away from each other.
Divergent boundary
400
This rock makes up most of the Earth's crust.
Sedimentary Rock
400
Name this type of fossil.
Trace
400
What area in the United States has the most earthquakes?
California or The West Coast
500
Which layer of the Earth contains convection currents that allow plates to move?
The Mantle
500
Most of these plate boundaries are located in the ocean and cause sea-floor spreading.
Divergent boundary
500
What is this diagram?
The Rock Cycle
500
What do ice cores tell us?
about the climate and atmosphere from the past
500
A break or crack in the Earth's surface.
Fault