Structure of the Earth
Continental Drift Theory
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
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100

Convection currents happen in the _____ of Earth. 

What is mantle

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
100

What can be used to determine the relative ages of rocks? 

intrusions, faults, and fossils

200
The thickest layer of the Earth
What is the mantle.
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.

What is divergent boundary

200

Hot air or liquid is less ________________ than cool air or liquid.

What is dense

200
What is the absolute age of a rock? 

The exact age. Can found by using radioactive decay

300

The deeper you go, the older the strata of rock is called the law of __________. 

What is superposition. 

300
Pangaea existed this many millions of years ago
What is around 250 million years ago
300
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart
What is the Continental Drift Theory
300
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
What is earthquakes
300

What is a nonrenewable resource? 

Fossil fuels: Coal, oil/gas

400
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface
What is tectonic plates.
400

Continental Drift Theory was not accepted because it did not explain_______?

What is how the continents moved

400

This is the mechanism (what causes) the plates to move

What is convection currents

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

What is a renewable resource? 

Trees, water, plants, animals... 

500

What types of events are caused by plate tectonics? 

Volcanoes, tsunamis, and earthquakes. 

500

Subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed) are what type of boundaries? 

What is the two types of convergent boundaries

500

What information helps predict tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes? 

What is seismic data

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