Plate Boundaries
What are the 3 types of plate boundaries?
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
What are the lines on a Topographic map called?
Contour Lines
What were Alfred Wagner's 4 major pieces of evidence of continental drift?
Fossil
Mountain
Climate
Geometric
What is potential energy?
stored/ not moving energy
What is formed at a Transform boundary?
Earthquakes and Fault Lines
How do the plates move at convergent boundaries?
Towards eachother
What is the space between the contour lines called?
Contour Interval
What was the fossil evidence?
What is the process that removes soil, rock, and dissolved material from one location on Earths crust to another location?
Erosion
True or False: An object in motion is and unbalanced force.
True
How do plates move at a divergent boundary?
Move away from eachother
What is a topographic map?
It shows elevations and the shape of Earth's surface
What was the mountain evidence?
Mountain ranges on one continent match a mountain range on a different continent
What is kinetic energy?
energy in motion
What is formed at a Divergent plate boundary?
Mid-ocean ridge, rift valley, and seafloor spreading
How do plates move at a transform boundary?
They slide past eachother
When the contour lines are closer together, what type of slope does the mountain have?
Steep slope
What was the geometric evidence?
The continents fit together like puzzle pieces
What is the process of wearing down rock by long exposure to wind and rain?
Weathering
True or False: A transform boundary is when two plates move in the same direction.
False
What is formed at a convergent plate boundary?
mountains, volcanoes, island arcs, trenches
When the contour lines are far apart, what type of slope does the mountain have?
Gentle Slope
What was the climate evidence?
Where does lava come from?
Volcanoes
What is the energy transformation at a transform boundary?
built up potential energy is transformed into kinetic energy.