plate tectonics
Alfred Wegener
plates
plate boundaries and what they make
EarthQuake!!!
100
theory that describes the formation, movement, and interactions between these plates.
What is Plate tectonics?
100
Alfred's true practice in science.
What is Meteorology?
100
broken up pieces of Earth's cooled and hardened crust.
What are plates?
100
place where two plates meet and collide.
What is a fault
100
place where Earthquakes happen.
What are plate boundaries, fault lines?
200
man who came up with the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
November 1, 1880
When was Alfred born?
200
made of Granite.
What are Continental plates?
200
type of plate boundary that causes folded mountains
What is a convergent boundary?
200
the cause of most major Earthquakes.
What is the release of energy?
300
theory that the continents have moved over time and were once connected as a supercontinent.
What is Continental drift?
300
1912
When did Alfred Wegener propose his theory of Continental Drift?
300
made up of Basalt.
What are oceanic plates?
300
type of plate boundary that makes volcanoes
What is a divergent boundary?
300
break in Earths crust.
What is a fault?
400
sea floor mapping
What is bathymetry?
400
Alfred Wegener thought that this force caused the plates to move to where they are now.
What is Centrifugal force?
400
true or false. the convection cycle is how the plates move.
true.
400
in order for landforms to form, the plates must have different _____
What is density?
400
the point where the Earthquake starts underground.
What is the focus?
500
fossils, rock types, shape of continents.
What are the three pieces of evidence that alfred Wegener used to prove his theory of Continental Drift?
500
Alfred Wegener's Middle name.
What is Alfred LOTHAR Wegener?
500
the earth has _ big plates and _ small plates
What is 8 and 9 in that order?
500
type of plate boundary where the plates rub against each other and cause fractures in the crust.
What is a transform boundary?
500
the most dangerous type of wave. the cause of most of the shaking felt during an earthquake.
What is a Rayleigh wave
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