Tectonic Plates
Plate Boundaries
Pangea
Earth's Layers
Vocabulary
100
Causes the movement of tectonic plates
What is Convection Currents
100
What causes the plate boundaries to move?
What is Convection Currents.
100
The person who created the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegner?
100
The top layer of the earth.
What is Crust?
100
Makes up most of the continental crust.
What is granite ?
200
The power behind the convection currents.
What is the cooling and heating from the outer core?
200
These boundaries move apart from each other and can cause sea-floor spreading such as the Great Rift Valley
What is Divergent Boundary?
200
One of the continents names that was created when Pangea drifted apart.
What is Lauraisa & Gondwana?
200
It is the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust together.
What is lithosphere?
200
The rock that makes up most of the oceanic crust.
What is Basalt?
300
What Alfred Wegner studied to find tectonic plates.
What is geology?
300
The 3 things that convergent boundaries cause.
What is volcanoes, earthquakes,subduction zones, and mountains?
300
The continent that tropical fossils were found on, that helped prove the Pangea theory.
What is Antarctica
300
The layer that is solid from all the pressure.
What is inner core?
300
The result of a force pressing down on an area.
What is Pressure?
400
The movement of tectonic plates cause what .
What is boundaries?
400
The boundary that causes volcanoes and causes mountains such as the Himalayas.
What is Convergent Boundary?
400
How long ago was it when scientist thought continental drift started to begin?
What is 215 million years ago?
400
The layer that is liquid and is made out of molten metal.
What is Outer Core?
400
The study of different rocks.
What is Geology
500
This was when tectonic plates was first introduced.
What is 1960's?
500
The fault that was caused by a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ boundary.
What is the Transform & San Andreas Fault ?
500
The geologist that discovered the same fossils in different parts of the world.
Who is Edward Suess?
500
The lower part of the mantle that is bendable like plastic.
What is asthenosphere?
500
Vibrations that travel through the earth carrying the energy realesed during an earthquake.
What is Seismic Waves?
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