Continental Drift
Seafloor Spreading
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Misc
100
Who discovered continental drift?
Alfred Wegener
100
How were we able to map the seafloor
Sonar
100
What are plates?
Large broken pieces of lithosphere
100
What way does a footwall move in a normal fault
Up
100
What is special about today?
Pi Day
200
What was the specific organism that helped support continental drift?
Mesosaurus: A crocodile
200
What is the 70,000 km geological feature that runs through the ocean?
Mid ocean Ridge
200
What kind of boundaries move away from each other?
Divergent boundaries
200
What is the focus?
Where the earthquake starts on a fault
200
What seed is the university of Montana Grizzlies in the tournament this year?
14
300
What was compared in the Appalachians, British Isles, and Cadelonian mountains to support continental drift?
Rock types
300
What forms in the middle of a mid ocean ridge?
Rift Valley
300
Where would I find a transform fault boundary in the U.S.?
San Andreas Fault
300
What are small earthquakes after a major earthquake
Aftershock
300
Who died today, famous scientist
Stephen Hawking
400
Deposits of what between 220 to 300 mya show on different continents show evidence of what?
Glaciers
400
What are long curved valleys near the edge of ocean basins?
Trenches
400
If two continental plates converge what will be created?
Mountains
400
What waves travel through the ground?
Body waves
400
What is special about this Sunday
My birthday
500
Why was Wegeners hypothesis rejected?
He couldn't explain how they moved
500
Where are younger parts of the seafloor basins?
Close to mid ocean ridge
500
How do volcanic islands form
Oceanic to oceanic come together
500
What does the Modified Mercalli Scale measure?
Earthquake intensity
500
Who do the Griz play first round tomorrow
Michigan
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