German geologist that in 1912 came up with the continental drift theory.
What is Alfred Wegener
100
How many types of boundaries are there?
What is 8
100
Famous example of a transform boundary would be _____/
What is San Andreas Fault
100
What year was the continental drift theory created?
What is 1912
200
A line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times.
What is isochron
200
Where was Wegener from?
What is Germany
200
Two plates moving away from each other and new crust is forming from magma rising between them.
What is Divergent
200
This happens when an older portion of the seafloor sinks and the weight of the uplifted ridge pushes the oceanic plate toward the trench formed from the subduction zone.
What is Ridge Push
200
What type of evidence has been found in drastically different locations on earth?
What is fossil evidence
300
Fossilized fern that grew in warm climates near the equator.
What is glossopteris
300
What kind of scientist was Wegener?
What is Geologist
300
When an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate and subducts under it.
What is Oceanic-Continental
300
Area in which the subduction of plates occur.
What is Subduction Zone.
300
Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents had once been joined and over time _____ ____.
What is drifted apart
400
Outer portion of the earth consisting of the crust and upper part of the mantle.
What is Lithosphere
400
Name of Wegener's book about his belief in Pangea.
What is Origin of the Continents and Oceans
400
Example of a divergent boundary would be ______.
What is Mid Ocean Ridge
400
Where the weight of a subducting plate pulls the training slab into the subduction zone effectively pulling it down with it.
What is slab pull
400
When separated, rocks left behind similar ______ patterns
What is sediment
500
The branch of geophysics concerned with the magnetism in rocks that was induced by the earth's magnetic field at the time of their formation.
What is paleomagnetism
500
What other kind of science did Wegener study?
What is Meteorology
500
What is caused by the collision of the plates at a convergent boundary?
What is deformation of Earth's crust
500
Creates new crust and destroys old crust.
What is Seafloor spreading
500
_____ _____ pushes older crust farther away allowing for the formation of new bodies of water and continents.