Vocabulary
The name of the supercontinent is _____________.
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located close to these
What is a plate boundary
What are tectonic plates.
The 2 continents with matching shapes are _____________________ and _____________________
What is Africa and South America
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary.
What is divergent boundary
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart
What is the Continental Drift Theory
Plates float on top of the _______________________.
Similar fossils and ________________ have been found on different continents which hint at the land being connected into Pangea.
Rock Types/Mountain Types
Name four of the major plates
What is any of the following North American plate, South American plate, Eurasian Plate, Australian plate, African plate, Antarctica plate
States that youngest rocks of ocean floor are at divergent boundaries, moving outward
What is seafloor spreading
Name two types of bedrock
Granite, Sandstone, Limestone, Basalt
Pangaea in latin means ____ ________.
All Land
What causes the plates to move?
What is convection currents in the mantle
The Earth's crust is thinnest under the _____________________ and thickest under the _____________________.
Thinnest under the ocean and thickest under the continents.
Scientists have found ______ _________ on different continents which allowed them to conclude there was one large glacier on Pangea.
Glacier scars
What is the name of when one plate sinks below another plate?
What is subduction?
Under the ocean at divergent boundaries.