Plate Tectonics Review Game

Vocabulary

100

The thinnest layer of the Earth

What is the crust

200

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

What is tectonic plates.

300

The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart

What is the Continental Drift Theory

400

Tell me the four types of volcanoes and their characteristics

What is Cinder: EXPLOSIVE 

Shield: Oozes

Composite: Either Way

Fissure: Long Crack

500

Describe why plates move on Earth's surface using the terms: asthenosphere, lithosphere, and convection currents.  You may draw a picture to explain.

The lithosphere (crust and upper mantle) is divided into plates that float on the molten asthenosphere like rafts.  Convection currents (hot things rise, cool things fall) drive the movement of tectonic plates.  You may draw a picture to explain.

Plate Tectonics

100

Name the three types of plate boundaries and show me the directions with your hands.

Convergent, Divergent, Transform

200

What landforms are associated with Divergent boundaries?

Volcanoes and Ridges

300

Plates float on top of the _______________________.

What is the asthenosphere

400

The rigid part of the Earth including the crust and the upper mantle (makes up the plates of the Earth)

What is the lithosphere

500

Name the landforms associated with...

Continental-Oceanic Convergent Boundary

Continental-Continental " "

Oceanic-Oceanic " "

Volcano

Mountains

Trench

Continental Drift Theory and Seafloor Spread

100

What is the Continental Drift Theory

The theory that Earth's continents were once combined (Pangaea) and have since spread out and continue to move

200

Evidence of matching animal fossils from two separate continents _____________________ and _____________________

What is Africa and South America

300

Tell me 3 pieces of evidence that support CDT!

1. Flora and fauna

2. Mountain Ranges

3. Satellite data shows continents moving

4. Fossil Evidence

400

Explain seafloor spread?

Divergent plate boundaries in ocean create new oceanic crust in center of boundary.  

500

How long ago was PANGEA whole?

Around 250 million years

Earthquakes and Volcanoes

100

Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these

What is a plate boundary

200

Why is the S-P time interval important?  How do you use it (and more information) to locate an earthquake?  You may draw on the board

S-P: shows you how far because S travels 1/2 as fast as P

Triangulation!

300

Come up to the board and draw an earthquake.  Include: fault, hanging wall, foot wall, epicenter, focus.

Ask Ms. SB

400

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

What is convection currents in the mantle

500

What happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?  Why?

What is subduction (Oceanic Plate under Continental because O is more dense) and forms a volcano due to increase in water in asthenosphere--> lower melting point

Weathering and Erosion

100

What is weathering?

Break down of rocks due to elements?

200

What is erosion?

Movement of weathered particles

300

What are the main types of weathering (3)

Physical, Chemical, Biological

400

What are the different types of erosion?

Wind, Water, Gravity, Ice

500

What is the most delicious food on the planet?

IDK if your answer is creative you get the points