Fun Facts
These are two of the top eight minerals that has the highest concentration in the crust.
What are oxygen, silicon, aluminium, iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and/or sodium?
This is the plate that holds almost all of Africa.
What is the African Plate?
These are the two types of crust found at the "surface".
What are oceanic and continental crusts?
This is the plate that holds most of Europe.
What is the European Plate?
The lithosphere is broken up into
What are Tectonic Plates?
How many tectonic plate boundaries are there in Australia?
0
These are the 3 types of plate boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform?
This is the largest plate and has much of its edges marked by subduction boundaries.
What is the Pacific Plate?
Tectonic Plates have each have their own kind of
crust
These were some of the evidence of tectonic plate theory available to scientists in the early 1900s.
What are:
Fossil Evidence
Climate change evidence
puzzle piece continents
Rock formations are the same
Tectonic plates are able to move because the Earth's lithosphere has a higher strength than the underlying...
asthenosphere
T/F plate tectonics move metres per year
False
This is the meteorologist that first suggested the hypothesis of continents drifting?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Plate Tectonic Movements are generated by the movement of what?
Convection currents in the mantle