Alfred Wegner proposed that all the continents were once part of a super continent called this.
What is Pangaea?
This type of plate boundary
What is a transform plate boundary?
These geological events occur at transform plate boundaries.
What are earthquakes?
The crust and the upper portion of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
This is the number of students in this class.
The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called this.
What is continental drift?
This type of plate boundary can create mid-ocean ridges.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
This specific type of plate boundary creates some of the largest mountain ranges in the world.
What are continental-continental convergent plate boundaries?
This represents the strength of an earthquake.
What is the magnitude?
This is the highest grossing movie of all-time.
What is Avatar?
The circulation of magma caused by temperature differences in the mantle.
What is convection?
This type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
These volcanoes can occur in the middle of a plate, rather than the plate boundary.
What are hot spot volcanoes?
Magma that has reached the earth's surface.
What is lava?
This athlete has the most Olympic medals of all time.
Who is Michael Phelps?
These are huge, moving slabs of rock that make up the earth's surface.
What are Tectonic Plates?
The process of one plate sliding under another and back into the mantle.
What is subduction?
The break in a rock that causes an earthquake is known as this.
What is a fault?
The area on the surface above where an earthquake starts.
What is the epicentre?
This is the worlds most popular language.
What is Mandarin?
This technology provided important evidence for the theory by studying the ocean floor.
What is SONAR?
The process of new material forcing older material aside, causing plates to move apart.
What is ridge push?
Volcanic island arcs occur at this specific type of plate boundary.
What is an oceanic-oceanic convergent plate boundary?
These carry the energy of an earthquake and are labelled P, S, and L.
What are seismic waves?
This is the largest company in the world.
What is Walmart?