Continental Drift
Earth's Layers
Plate Tectonics
Earth's Surface
Hodge Podge
100
This German meteorologist claimed that the continents are moving.
Who is Alfred Wegener
100
The topmost layer where plants and animals, and rocks and soil are found.
What is the crust
100
When the crust is broken into parts, what are these parts called?
What are plates
100
Three ways that the Earth's surface can change is due to
What is weathering, erosion, and deposition
100
This evidence explains how rocks of the same exact type are found in two separate countries.
What is Rock and Mountain Correlation
200
This evidence suggests that the continents appear to fit one another.
What is the Apparent Fit of Continents
200
Beneath the Earth's crust is this layer.
What is the mantle.
200
Where two plates meet is also known as
What are plate boundaries
200
This is the breaking down of rock.
What is weathering
200
Scientists understand the composition of the Earth's interior due to this, which is released by natural or manmade earthquakes.
What is seismic waves
300
This evidence explains how identical fossils are found on opposite sides of the ocean in two different countries.
What is Fossil Correlation
300
The force that drives the motion of continents that takes place in the mantle and outer core is known as
What are convection currents
300
The three types of plate boundaries are
What are convergent, divergent, and transform plate boundaries
300
This is the movement of rock.
What is erosion
300
Identify one plate in your Tectonics Plates map.
What is ...
400
Wegener claimed that continents were once one large supercontinent called what?
What is Pangaea
400
What is the composition of the rock in the outer core?
What is liquid
400
Using your Tectonic Plates map, identify one location where two plates diverge in the ocean.
What is ...
400
This explains why there are rocks of different color.
What is chemical weathering
400
Describe the phenomenon of convection currents.
What is heated particles are less dense therefore float, cold particles are more dense and sink.
500
This evidence explains how coal is found in colder regions and glacial striation is found in warmer regions.
What is Paleoclimate Data.
500
The inner core is a solid ball because of this reason.
What is the pressure from other layers.
500
The Hawaiian islands were not formed by converging or diverging plates. What explanation to scientists have for the formation of Iceland and Hawaii?
What is hot spots
500
Animals burrowing underground and stomping on rocks break down rocks through this geological process.
What is mechanical weathering
500
Explain how hot spots form chains of islands.
What is pressure from the mantle punches through the crust. The crust breaks, which spew out magma creating underwater volcanoes. The crust is constantly moving because of convection currents forming new active volcanoes and dormant or extinct volcanoes.
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