Plate Tectonic Theory
Plate Boundaries
Earthquakes, Mountains, and Volcanoes
Rocks
Miscellaneous
100
Alfred Wegner proposed that all the continents were once part of a super continent called this.
What is Pangaea?
100
This type of plate boundary
What is a transform plate boundary?
100
These geological events occur at transform plate boundaries.
What are earthquakes?
100
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
100
Magma that has reached the earth's surface.
What is lava?
200
The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called this.
What is continental drift?
200
This type of plate boundary can create mid-ocean ridges.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
200
This specific type of plate boundary creates some of the largest mountain ranges in the world.
What are continental-continental convergent plate boundaries?
200
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
200
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
300
The circulation of magma caused by temperature differences in the mantle.
What is convection?
300
This type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
300
These volcanoes can occur in the middle of a plate, rather than the plate boundary. These volcanoes are not associated with a plate boundary.
What are hot spot volcanoes?
300
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
300
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Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
400
These are huge, moving slabs of rock that make up the earth's surface.
What are Tectonic Plates?
400
The process of one plate sliding under another and back into the mantle.
What is subduction?
400
The break in a rock that causes an earthquake is known as this.
What is a fault?
400
This type of igneous rock is made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Basalt?
400
Fossils are found only in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
500
Name all four evidences that the continents have drifted apart.
What is continents fit together like a puzzle, rock clues, fossil clues, and climate clues?
500
The process of molten rock heating and rising then cooling and dropping back down and the layer in which it happens.
What is convection currents in the asthenosphere?
500
Two land formation that forms at a divergent boundary.
What is a rift valley and the mid-ocean ridge?
500
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (granite) and extrusive (basalt) rocks?
500
The gene that is not seen when a dominant gene is present.
What is Recessive?