Plate Tectonics
This soft solid very hot rock is what fuels plate motion
What is the mantle?
This coast of South America used to be connected with Africa
What is the east coast?
The outline of the coasts of the major continents appear to fit like puzzle pieces.
What is coastal shape evidence?
Africa and South America used to be connected
What is a claim?
A giant oceanic wave created by a sudden shift in the sea floor
What is a tsunami?
Segments of hard solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer
What are plates?
This coast line of North America used to be connected with South America
What is the southern coast?
Matching rock types, ages, mountain ranges on different continents
What is Mountain/Rock type evidence?
A divergent boundary split apart a piece of Pangea into South America and Africa causing fossils of identical age and type to be found on each continent.
What is reasoning?
This area of the Earth was devoted by a tsunami in 2018
What is Indonesia?
Where two plates collide, the denser subducts into the mantle, the less dense gets pushed upward.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
This coast of Africa used to be connected to India
What is the eastern or southeastern coast?
Glossopteris fossils found in non-tropical regions of the earth, coal deposits in non-tropical areas of the earth, glacial “scratch” marks and lakes in warm areas of the earth
What is past climate evidence?
Matching Mesosaurus fossils on both Africa and South America
What is evidence?
This country's nuclear power plant in Fukushima suffered catastrophic damage due to tsunami in 2011 which led to a nuclear disaster.
What is Japan?
Was the foundational theory that lacked the mechanism for how the continents moved over millions of years
What is Continental Drift?
This coast of Australia used to be connected to Africa
What is the western coast?
Mesosaurus and Cynognathus fossils on east coast of South America and west coast of Africa
What is fossil evidence?
The Hawaiian Islands are a volcanic island chain created by a hot spot
This is a location where an earthquake is likely to trigger a tsunami
What is underwater along the seafloor?
This type of plate boundary causes many earthquakes, but does not build mountains or cause volcanic activity
What is a transform boundary?
The San Andres fault, the most famous transform boundary in the United States, is located along this coast.
What is the west coast?
A climate scientist who became obsessed with the idea that continents used to be connected in one large supercontinent.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The Glossopteris, an ancient tropical fern's fossil, is found on modern day South America, Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica.
What is evidence?
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