Types of Boundaries
A place where two plates slip past each other moving in opposite directions.
What is a transform boundary?
Wilson's full name
What is J. Tuzo Willson?
Wegener's first name
What is Alfred?
Theory of plate tectonics
What is the formation, movement and subduction of Earth’s plates?
a well-tested concept that explains a wide range of observations.
What is the scientific theory?
Two plates move apart or diverge usually occurring at a mid-ocean ridge
What is a divergent boundary?
What did Wilson believe?
proposed the lithosphere is broken into separate sections called plates.
Single landmass that is also known as
What is Pangea?
These natural disasters occur when a sudden movement occurs along transform boundaries.
What are earthquakes?
This is the meteorologist who first proposed the Theory of Continental Drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
A place where a continental plate collides with an oceanic plate
What is a convergent boundary? (ocean to continent)
This is the name of fault found in California where several major earthquakes have occurred.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
This is how many years ago earth's "supercontinent" began to split apart.
What is 200-250 million years ago?
Continental plates collide creating mountain ranges since plates have the same density.
What is a convergent boundary? (continent- to continent)
J. Tuzo Willson (1965) was a Canadian scientist that proposed the lithosphere is broken into separate sections called
What is plates?
The greatest damage in many earthquakes
what is fire?
This is the term for the fracture created when one plate suddenly slides past another plate.
What is a fault?
Transform Boundary, Divergent Boundary, and Convergent Boundary are considered
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
Almost all earthquakes occur at
What is plate boundaries?
The edges of the plates meet at lines called
What are
what are plate boundaries?