Contiental Drift
Seafloor Spreading
Earth's Structure
Plate Boundaries
Effects of Plate Tectonics
100
This is the name of the proposed "supercontinent" where all the earth's continents were once joined together.
What is Pangaea?
100
Seafloor Spreading occurs at what type of plate boundary?
What is a divergent boundary?
100
This is the underlaying (plastic-rock) flowing layer which allows the earth's plates to move.
What is the Asthenosphere?
100
This type of plate boundary involves two plates moving apart from one another.
What is a divergent boundary?
100
These features are produced on earth when two continents collide.
What are mountains?
200

This is the German Scientist who first proposed the Theory of Continental Drift

Who is Alfred Wegener?

200

These features form as new crust rises to the surface during seafloor spreading

What are mid-ocean ridges?

200
This is the rigid upper layer of the earth which inlcudes the earth's crust and upper most mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
200
This type of plate boundary involves two plates moving toward each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
200
These features are produced on the coasts of continents where oceanic crust moves underneath the continent.
What are volcanoes or volcanic arcs?
300

True/False

The theory of continental crust states that Earth has remained a supercontinent for the past 3.8 billion years. 

False 

300

True or False : Due to seafloor spreading, the size of the Atlantic ocean is constantly increasing. 

True

300

This is the the material used in the composition of the continental crust 

What is granite?

300
This type of plate boundary involves one plate sliding past another plate.
What is a transform boundary?
300
These natural disasters occur when a sudden movement occurs along transform boundaries.
What are earthquakes?
400

These are the two types of evidence that were initially used to support the Theory of Continental Drift.

What are similar shapes of coastlines and fossil evidence?

400

This is the process which allows microbes to thrive below the sea floor

What is Chemosynthesis 

400

This is the material found in the inner core. 

What is iron?

400
This is the term for one plate being forced underneath another plate.
What is Subduction?
400
This is the name of fault found in California where several major earthquakes have occured.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
500

This is described as the movement of continental masses on the surface of Earth

What is "Plate Tectonics"

500

This is the reason for granite's unique nature on Earth 

What is, it contains oxygen

500

These are the two types of crust found on earth and their densities and thicknesses?

What is continental crust (less dense, but thicker) and oceanic crust (more dense, but thinner)?

500
This is the term for the fracture created when one plate suddenly slides past another plate.
What is a fault?
500
These two features form in the ocean when one oceanic plate is forced below another oceanic plate
What are trenches and volcanic islands?
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