Plate Tectonics
Vocabulary
Boundaries
Facts
Plate Movements
100
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
What is a plate boundary
100
The thinnest layer of the Earth
What is the crust
100
When to plates collide
What is Convergent Boundaries?
100
Who Created The Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
100
How do scientists track the movement of tectonic plates?
What is GPS
200
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary
What is divergent boundary
200
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface
What is tectonic plates.
200
When two plates separate
What is Divergent Boundaries?
200
There are _____ Main Layers Of The Earth?
What Is Four
200
Which type of plate boundary is best represented by the arrows shown below?
What is Divergent Boundary
300
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)
300
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart
What is the Continental Drift Theory
300
When two plates slide past each other
What is Transform Boundaries?
300
What Is The Seven major plates?
What is the African, Antarctic, Eurasian, North American, South American, India-Australian, and Pacific plates
300
True or False: The surface of the Earth is broken up in gigantic pieces called tectonic plates.
What is True
400
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
What is earthquakes
400
Which layer of the Earth is composed of solid iron and nickel?
What Is The Inner Core!
400
When one tectonic plates dives under another
What is Subduction
400
A dropped zone where two tectonic plates are pulling apart?
What is Rift
400
True or False: Scientists believe that all seven continents were once joined together and formed a supercontinent called Pangea?
What is True
500
Name 4 Evidences of tectonic plate theory
Fossil Evidence
Climate change evidence
puzzle piece continents
Rock formations are the same
500
The layer of Earth between the core and the crust
What is the Mantle.
500
Made up of the crust and a tiny bit of the upper mantle, this zone is divided into several constantly (very slowly) moving plates of solid rock that hold the continents and oceans
What is the Lithosphere
500
What geological features are formed along divergent boundaries?
What is Trenches, ridges, and islands
500
Most of the United States is part of what tectonic plate?
What is North American Plate