Continental Drift
Plate tectonics
Hydrology
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Volcanoes/Earthquakes
100
Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
100
The Earth's crust is broken into what?
What are plates?
100
The amount of dissolved salts in water
What is salinity?
100
All rocks contain these
What are minerals?
100
this fault looks like a transform boundary
What is strike-slip fault?
200
Tropical plants found frozen in Glaciers represents what type of evidence?
What is climate evidence?
200
The plates have how many types of boundary interactions?
What are 3?
200
Mixture of freshwater and saltwater
What is brackish water?
200
Meaning change
Metamorphosis
200
plate boundaries that form volcanoes
What are Convergent and Divergent boundaries?
300
The continents are moving because of what?
What is the movement of the plates?
300
Oceanic crust sinking below continental crust is called
What is subduction?
300
Largest and deepest ocean
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
Moves in the mantle and is responsible for plate movement
What are convection currents?
300
The two pieces that either move up or down in a reverse or normal fault
What are hanging wall and footwall?
400
What describes the continents when they were joined as one?
What is Pangea?
400
Volcanic islands like Japan and Hawaii are caused by
What are convergent boundaries?
400
Top part of a wave
What is the crest?
400
As pressure and density increases in the Earth's layers, what also increases?
What is temperature?
400
A reverse fault is when which wall moves up?
What is the hanging wall?
500
Wegener's hypothesis was
What is the continents are drifting?
500
India broke off Pangea and ended where, creating what landform?
What is by Asia and the Himalayan mountains?
500
Causes the division of the World Ocean
What are the continents?
500
These elements are differentiated by density in Earth's layers
What are iron, nickel, aluminum, silicon, and oxygen?
500
Subduction in this place causes the worst volcanic eruptions and earthquakes
What is the Pacific plate?
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