Who's Fault Is It?
San Andreas Fault is this type of plate boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
This type of rock comes from cooling lava from volcanoes.
What are igneous rocks?
This is the name of the supercontinent that the 7 continents came from.
What is Pangaea?
Divergent boundaries are found in this part of the world.
What is under the ocean?
True or False:
Mt. Everest is shrinking every year?
What is False?
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is this type of plate boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
This type of rock comes from rocks that are placed under intense heat or pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
This is the scientist that originally thought up the Continental Drift Theory.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Hawaii is an example of this type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
Mt. Hotaka is one of these. (Hint: There are many igneous rocks found there)
What is a volcano?
The "Ring of Fire" in the Pacific Ocean contains 75% of the world's _____________.
What are volcanoes?
This type of rock forms from sediments settling over many years.
What are sedimentary rocks?
Scientists discovered the same _____________ on different continents, which lead them to believe that the continents were once all connected.
What are fossils?
When the ocean crust goes under the continental crust, this happens to it.
Mt. Narodnaya has many of these types of rocks.
What are metamorphic rocks?
Mountain ranges are created by these type of plate boundaries.
What are convergent boundaries?
Sedimentary rocks often contain these rare objects.
What are fossils?
Wegener noticed that these two continents fit together really well, which eventually lead him to his Continental Drift Theory.
What are South America and Africa?
This is what happens when two continental crusts push into each other.
What is it pushes upward into a mountain?
True or False:
Mt. Mitchell is shrinking in height.
What is True?
This area of a convergent boundary is where the ocean crust goes under the continental crust.
What is the subduction zone?
Metamorphic rocks are just these two rocks that have been placed under extreme heat or pressure.
What are igneous and sedimentary rocks?
This was the other scientist who backed up Wegener's Continental Drift Theory.
Who is Alexander Du Toit?
Volcanoes are most commonly found in these two plate boundaries.
What are divergent and convergent boundaries?
Mt. Aconcagua is moving 3cm in this direction every year.
What is north?