An fossil that helped prove Wegner's theory of continental drift.
What is a mesosaurus?
200
This is lava underground.
What is magma?
200
The India plate and the Eurasian plate created this mountain.
What is Mount Everest?
300
When two plates come together and the more dense plate goes under the less dense plate is this.
What is subduction?
300
The part of the earth that is liquid and composed of iron and nickel.
What is the outer core?
300
Similar fossil records on different continents, similar mountain ranges, and the continents fit together like puzzle pieces is the three reasons of this.
What is Wegner's proposal of continental drift?
300
This goes around the pacific plate.
What is the ring of fire?
300
The San Andres Fault is a
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boundary.
What is a transforming boundary.
400
When plates move and shake the earth.
What is an earthquake?
400
The inner most part of the earth.
What is the inner core?
400
What was Wegner's continental drift theory weakness?
Wegner could not prove what forces made continental drift.
400
Where volcanoes form.
What is around the edges of plates?
400
This country is being "split apart" by the North American plate and the Eurasian plate.
What is Iceland?
500
A boundary that happens when two plates slide against each other.
What is a transform sliding boundary?
500
The part of the earth like the skin of an apple.
What is the crust?
500
This happened in 1930.
When did Wegner die?
500
300 volcanoes are in this.
What is the ring of fire?
500
This plate is subducting under the South American plate.