What natural disasters are caused by plate tectonics?
100
They can cause earthquakes, tsunamis, mountains, but they can cause fertile soil, and fossil fuels.
What is the theory that plate tectonics can do?
200
Convergent Boundary
What type of boundary is it when crust destroyed?
200
Crust
What is another name for lithosphere?
200
Two continental plates colliding
What causes fold mountains?
200
Plate tectonics are the plates under the earth that make up the earths surface, they move because of intense heat.
What is the theory of plate tectonics
300
Divergent Boundary
What type of boundary is it when new crust forms?
300
When an oceanic plate and continental plate collide.
What causes subduction to occur?
300
What is Mrs. O'Brien's dog's name?
Sir Buxley
300
the nineteenth century longitude determenations (longitude lines on a map), the shape of continents, fossil evidence, matching rock types and geological structures, and ancient climate patters
What evidence did Alfred Wegener use?
400
Transform Boundary
What type of boundary is it when two plates slide past each other?
400
Convection Currents
What causes plates to move?
400
Fold, Block, and Volcanic Mountains
What are two of the three mountains formed by plate tectonics?
400
Alfred Wegener
What guy was not trusted with his idea of movement of plate tectonics?
500
continental-continental, oceanic-oceanic, and oceanic-continental
What are the three types of convergent boundaries?
500
Broken parts of lithosphere that carry continents and oceans
What are plate tectonics?
500
What is Mrs. Corr's Dog's name?
Duncan
500
He believed plate tectonics moved and that is what formed continents and oceans.