Pangea
Plate Tectonics
The Rock Cycle
100
What is the name of the proposed giant landmass made up of all seven continents?
Pangea
100
Which type of plate boundary exists between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate?
Transform
100
Which type of rocks would a volcano be made from?
Igneous
200
Which scientist proposed the idea that the continents were once all connected as Pangea, but drifted to their current positions?
Alfred Wegner
200
What is being depicted below, in which two plates move towards each other, and one plate sinks below the other?
Subduction
200
Which type of igneous rocks form outside the earth's surface and do NOT have crystals?
EXTRUSIVE
300
What is the name of the theory that the continents were once connected in one supercontinent (Pangea) and drifted to their current positions?
Continental drift
300
Which process is being depicted below, in which sea floor is created?
Sea floor spreading
300
Which type of igneous rocks form within the earth's surface and have large crystals?
INTRUSIVE
400
What two pieces of evidence helped support Wegner's continental drift hypothesis?
1. The same fossils found on different continents
2. The shape of the continents look like puzzle pieces
400
What is the NAME of the location where sea floor spreading takes place?
The mid-ocean ridge
(mid-atlantic ridge acceptable)
400
Which type of rock would be found at the mid-ocean ridge?
Igneous
500
What was the name of the geologist who mapped the location of fossils and found the Glossopteris in non-tropical locations?
Hint: NOT Alfred Wegener
Edward Seuss
500
Where is rock YOUNGER in age, in relation to the mid-ocean ridge? (closer or further away?)
Closer
500
Which type of rock would be found as it sinks towards the mantle at a subduction zone?
Metamorphic