Boundaries
What are the three types of boundaries?
Convergent, Divergent, Transform Boundaries
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
How plates move, interact and change
What are the three pieces of evidence to support continental drift
continents fit like a puzzle
fossils from plants and animal
rock sequencing
What is the Super continent?
when all 7 continents were connected.
What is divergent boundary?
Moves away from each other
What is another name for lithosphere?
Crust
what is found in the ground that helped with the pangaea theory
fossils
What is the force behind plate tectonics?
Convection Currents
What is Convergent boundary?
Moves towards each other
When an oceanic plate and continental plate collide.
What is a subduction zone?
How many continents are there?
7
what dinosaur is found on every continent?
Lystrosaurus
What is transform boundary?
when plates slide past each other
What causes plates to move?
Convection Currents
what is found on the edges of the continents?
volcanoes
Who discovered plate tectonics?
Alfred Wegener
What are the three effects of convergent boundaries?
Mountains, earthquakes, and volcanoes are the effects of this boundary
What is a a violent shaking of the earth's surface?
earthquake
What is made up of huge plates that move through the Earth?
lithosphere
What causes the currents of the plates to move?
Magna flowing beneath the Earth