Plate tectonics
Continental drift
Volcanoes and Mountains
100
What is the name of the supercontinent that began to break apart about 225 million years ago.
What is Pangaea?
100
Who is Alfred Wegener
He created the continental drift theory
100
What is a folded mountain?
This type of mountain is formed by a continental-continental collision.
200
Mountains are formed from this type of boundary movement
What is convergent boundary?
200
What is Continental drift?
The theory that the continents have moved slowly on the earth to their current location is called ______________.
200
What is a cinder cone volcano?
This volcano has steep sides and is a loose pile of volcanic rock fragments
300
This is the crust that goes below the other when two oceanic crusts converge
What is the more dense layer?
300
The large landmass made up of all the continents was called _______.
What is Pangaea?
300
What is a composite volcano?
This volcano is usually cone-shaped, and is built up of layers of hardened lava and of rock fragments.
400
What is the part of the mantle can bend like plastic
What is aesthenosphere?
400
What is Antarctica?
Evidence of tropical plants were found on this continent
400
What is a fault-block mountain?
This mountain is created by it's lithosphere being stretched and pulled apart.
500
When two plates go in opposite directions but also go past each other
What is transform boundary?
500
What is continents fit almost like a puzzle together, climate change, and fossil evidence?
The 3 evidences that Wegener had to show that continental drift does happen.
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