Vocabulary
Locations of Plate Boundaries
Continental Drift Theory
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
100

The layer of Earth we walk on is called the

What is the lithosphere

100

Island found on a divergent boundary

Iceland

100
Created the Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
100
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
What is a plate boundary
100
The Himalayan mountains are the result of a ___________________________ boundary.
What is convergent boundary
200

A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface

What is tectonic plates.

200

Hydrothermal vents are found along these areas

Divergent faultlines

200
Evidence of matching animal fossils from two separate continents _____________________ and _____________________
What is Africa and South America
200
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary and ___________________ occurs here where new ocean floor is formed.
What is divergent boundary; sea-floor spreading
200

What plate do YOU live on

What is the Pacific Plate

300
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart
What is the Continental Drift Theory
300

A major mountain in Asia formed by collision of convergent plate tectonics

What are the Himalayas

300

Prior to looking at the ocean floor, these finding were two pieces evidence that continental plates were moving

What are fossils and continental edges

300
Name four of the major plates
What is any of the following North American plate, South American plate, Eurasian Plate, Indoaustralia plate, African plate, Antarctica plate
300

Organisms found along hydrothermal vents obtain energy through

What is  chemosynthesis

400
States that youngest rocks of ocean floor are at divergin boundaries, moving outward
What is seafloor spreading
400

The San Andreas Fault

What is a transform faultline

400

How many plates are found on the Earth today

What is 13

400

Name four pieces of evidence for seafloor spreading

What is age of seafloor, paleomagnetism, hydrothermal vents and mid-ocean ridge

400
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ____________________ boundary.
What is a transform boundary
500

When two plates pull apart along divergent faultlines, these valleys are created

What are rift valleys

500

An ocean to continental boundary has created these volcanos along this part of  South America

Where are the Andes

500

Continental Drift is moved by _____________ __________

What are convection currents

500
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)
500
This person used sonar to map the bottom of the ocean and discovered the mid-ocean ridge in the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Harry Hess!
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