Evidence
How Our Land "Comes Together"
When Our Land "Pulls Apart" and "Slides Past" Eachother
Our Earth's Layers
Odds and Ends
100
The large land mass that was said to be all together at the beginning of Earth's history
What is Pangea
100
Two of earth's plates coming together
What is convergent
100
A boundary where our land pulls apart
What is divergent
100
The thinnest layer of our Earth
What is the crust
100
Who came up with the theory of continental drift?
Who is Alfred Wegner
200
One of the three evidences where mountain ranges across oceans matched up
What is Rock Evidence
200
When two plates come together and one goes under another
What is subduction
200
A boundary where our land slides past eachother
What is transform
200
The solid iron layer of our Earth
What is inner core
200
The part of the United States that experiences the most Earthquakes and why.
What is California because it sits on the San Andreas fault.
300
An evidence where dead animals from thousands of years ago were found on continents that used to be together
What is Fossil Evidence
300
When an oceanic and oceanic plate comes together this is formed
What is volcanic island arcs and/or trenches
300
The transform boundary forms these
What are earthquakes
300
The layer that contains the crust and upper mantle
What is lithosphere
300
The mostly liquid layers of the Earth. (give one)
What is middle/lower mantle and outer core (some of it)
400
The evidence of tropical plant fossils found in Antarctica
What is Climate Evidence
400
What forms when two continental plates come together?
What is mountains
400
When plates pull apart what is formed?
What are rift valleys
400
These are found in the mantle and are why our Earth moves.
What are convection currents
400
The name for a big chunk of land that "floats" on the mantle.
What is a plate
500
Name the three types of evidences that are important to prove plate tectonics
What are climate, rock, and fossil
500
What forms when a continental and oceanic plate come together?
What is volcanoes and trenches
500
What boundary forms new land?
What is divergent
500
What makes up the athenosphere layer?
What is the middle and lower mantle
500
The nickname for "ring" of volcanoes that goes around the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire
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