Plate Tectonics 1
Plate Tectonics 2
Super Continent
Fossils
Wegener
100
The two main types of plates
What are continental and oceanic?
100
The movement at a transform plate boundary is best described as -
What is one plate sliding along another plate?
100
Wegener had hypothesized that continents once formed a single huge land mass, which he called Pangaea.
What is Pangaea?
100
Types of fossils found on South America and Africa that
What are plant and animal fossils?
100
The German scientist who suggested that the Earth's surface looked very different millions of years ago
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
The three main types of plate boundaries
What are Divergent, Convergent, and Transform?
200
This tectonic plate movement occurs at a mid-ocean ridge, magma continues to erupt up from the mantle and core and cools in the ocean waters.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
200
This diagram shows the number of phases between Pangaea and our present day continents
What are three?
200
Tropical plant fossils (as coal deposits) were found on what continent
What is Antarctica?
200
Alfred Wegener's idea that the Earth's surface looked very different millions of years ago
What is Continental Drift?
300
This best describes the movement of the plates that make up Earth's surface over millions of years
What is continuously moving?
300
_____ and _____ occur when a plate subducts
What are earthquakes and volcanoes?
300
Sometimes they're hard to figure out, but scientists have worked very hard and figured out that these present day continents opposite coasts once fit together like a puzzle
What is South America and Africa?
300
These left gouges in the Earth's crust of South America, southern Africa, India, and southern Australia
What are glaciers?
300
The use of what as evidence helped Alfred determine how the continents have been changing for millions of years
What are fossils?
400
A model of a plate boundary is shown. As the plates slide past each other _______ most likely occurs.
What is an earthquake?
400
The shale layers in the drawing were broken and separated by movement along the fault. _____ most likely occurred as these rock layers moved along the fault
What is an earthquake?
400
Pangaea means
What is "the Whole Land?"
400
The picture shows a limestone building block. We know that this limestone was formed from ocean sediments because
What are the type of fossils?
400
In 1912, Wegener proposed his idea of continental drift, but his book, The Origin of Continents and Oceans was not published until
What is 1915?
500
The map below shows the location of some active volcanoes around the globe.
This pattern of active volcanoes shows evidence for the -
What is the movement of plate tectonics?
500
The pictures below show the estimated locations of landmasses on Earth 225 million years ago and their present day locations.
This processes caused the breakup and relocation of the landmasses over time
What is tectonic plate motion
500
What period in history did Pangaea break apart into two parts?
What is the Jurassic Period?
500
When comparing fossil A to fossil B, fossil B is
What is older?
500
The year Wegener's Theory of Continental Drift was recognized
What is 1960?