Fun Facts
Two types of material in the crust
What is silicon, magnesium, oxygen, calcium, carbon, aluminium, sodium, iron, nickel etc
Correct name for plate movements
Plate Tectonics
Which plate boundary would you find most volcanos?
Convergent
What is lava called when underground?
Magma
What was the Super continent called 250 million years ago
Pangaea
What do 2 continental plates colliding create? (convergent)
Mountains
What is the best country in the world?
Ireland 🇮🇪
3 types of plates
convergent, divergent, transform
Plate in Antarctica
Antarctic Plate
The part of the earth we live on
crust
If plates move away from each other. They are which type of plate?
Divergent
Evidence of tectonic plate theory
Fossil Evidence
Climate change evidence
puzzle piece continents
Rock formations are the same
Plate that Asia is located on?
Eurasian Plate
Which is more dense, Oceanic or Continental plates?
Oceanic
T/F plate tectonics move metres per year
False
How many years did it take for people to believe Alfred Wegeners theory of plate tectonics after he died?
50
Who first suggested the theory of plate tectonics?
Alfred Wegener
Plate Tectonic Movements are generated by the movement of what?
Convection currents in the mantle
Transform boundaries can cause which natural hazard?
Earthquake
What colour is the sky?
Blue