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Drifting Away
Smashing Pumpkins
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A Bad Break Up
100
Alfred Wegener was the first geologist who hypothesized THIS supercontinent formed 320 mya.
What is PANGEA?
100
This plate tectonic boundary involves tectonic plates moving away from each other.
What are DIVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES?
100
This plate tectonic boundary involves tectonic plates coming towards each other.
What are CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES?
100
This plate tectonic boundary involves tectonic plates sliding past each other.
What are TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARIES?
100
There are this many major tectonic plates.
What is SEVEN?
200
He is responsible for determining the "engine" for plate tectonics. Now known as mantle convection.
Who is ARTHUR HOLMES?
200
Most divergent plate boundaries are in this type of crust.
What is OCEANIC CRUST?
200
These two crustal types will result in mountain building.
What is CONTINENTAL AND CONTINENTAL CONVERGENCE?
200
This one is the most famous transform plate boundary.
What is the SAN ANDREAS FAULT?
200
This type of crust is more dense.
What is OCEANIC CRUST?
300
This person is responsible for hypothesizing the Great Global Rift.
Who is MARIE THARP?
300
This is a 2,000 km north to south trending landform due to divergent plate boundaries
What is the MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE?
300
This mountain range formed due to convergent plate boundaries.
What is the HIMALAYAN RANGE?
300
This is the primary hazard at transform plate boundaries.
What are EARTHQUAKES?
300
This part of Pangea included N.A, Asia, and Europe.
What is EURASIA?
400
This person determined that sea floor spreading occurred at ocean ridges.
Who is HARYY HESS?
400
This is the type of strain related to this plate boundary type.
What is TENSIONAL strain?
400
This is the type of strain related to this plate boundary type
What is COMPRESSION?
400
This is the type of strain related to this plate boundary type
What is SHEAR?
400
Based on this diagram, in which direction is the Pacific Plate moving?
What is NW?
500
It is the combination of THESE lines of evidence that lead to the theory of Continental drift. (Hint: MUST GET 3 out of 4)
What are GLACIAL STRIATIONS, FOSSIL CORRELATION, MATCHING ROCK SEQUENCES, and CONTINENTAL SHAPES MATCHING.
500
This mineral helped confirm sea floor spreading by recording magnetic pole flipping.
What is MAGNETITE?
500
It is this part of a subduction zone where the subducting plate offscrapes onto the upper plate.
What is the ACCRETIONARY PRISM?
500
What Kind of transform plate boundary is this?
What is a RIGHT LATERAL?
500
Name 6 of the 7 major tectonic plates.
What are the NORTH AMERICAN, SOUTH AMERICAN, EURASIAN, ANTARCTIC, INDO-AUSTRALIAN, AFRICAN, and PACIFIC PLATES?