Notable People
Famous Painter during the Renaissance? (painted the Mona Lisa)
Who is Leonardo da Vinci.
What is the remains of an organism and was found in very different places which supported that the continents were once connected?
The huge landmass that broke into today’s continents.
What is Pangaea.
Pieces of Earth’s crust that move on the mantle.
What are tectonic plates?
What layer makes up most of the earth's volume and causes the movement of the tectonic plates?
What is the Mantle.
Who came up with the Continental Drift Hypothesis?
What are Mountain Ranges.
A single landmass made of all continents together.
What is a supercontinent?
New crust forms at mid-ocean ridges and moves outward.
What is seafloor spreading?
The center of Earth, made of iron and nickel.
What is the core?
Who is considered the first important female is geology?
Who is Etheldred Benett.
Similar rock layers and minerals are found on continents now separated by ocean?
What is rock layer evidence?
The northern half of Pangaea.
What is Laurasia?
The place where two tectonic plates meet.
What is a plate boundary?
The solid outer part of Earth made of the crust and upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
Who was one of the first people to see that the continents fit together like a "Jigsaw"?
Who is Francis Bacon.
What is the idea that the continents can fit together like a "jigsaw"?
Wegener couldn’t explain how continents moved.
What is lack of a mechanism?
(reason continental drift was not accepted)
Where one plate sinks below another into the mantle.
What is a subduction zone?
Slower earthquake waves that only move through solids.
What are S-waves?
Who is considered the founder of modern geology?
Who is James Hutton.
Glacial marks found in Africa, India, and South America line up like they came from one big ice sheet?
What is glaciation?
They thought land bridges once connected continents.
What are land bridges?
A massive landmass made of all Earth’s continents joined.
What is a supercontinent?
Fastest earthquake waves that move through solids and liquids.
What are P-waves?