Plate Tectonics
What was the original theory of Plate Tectonics called?
What is Sea-floor Spreading?
This type of dating refers to being compared to something else
What is Relative Dating
This scientist first developed the theory of Continental Drift.
Who is/was Alfred Wegener
Impression or other preserved sign of activity such as feeding, scratching, burrowing, walking, or resting.
What is a Trace Fossil?
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What is the Earth's outer crust called?
What is a Lithosphere?
What type of plate boundary creates the most earthquakes due to fault lines, like San Andreas?
What is Transform?
What is the definition of Aesthenosphere?
What is the Earth's upper mantle?
How are Europe and Asia (continents) different from other continents on Earth?
What is they are physically and geographically connected.
Hollow space left in a rock by animal or plant remains that have dissolved.
What is a Mold Fossil?
What types of currents move energy around a surface to heat it (or, in some cases, cool it down)?
What are Convection Currents?
What type of plate boundary creates mountains, especially mountains deep within the ocean floor?
What are Divergent?
These are a series of shields that are stated to be currently floating throughout the Earth today.
What are Tectonic Plates
Please state two of the pieces of evidence that Wegener used to create his theory of continental drift.
What are:
Fossils, landmarks (such as mountains), glaciers, and continental fit.
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Preserved remains of the plant or animal itself, or the preserved parts of the animal or plant like bones, teeth, and shells, or the imprint of parts of the animal or plant.
What is a Body Fossil?
What type of plate boundary "collides" with other plates?
What is Converge.
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What are the long chain of volcanoes that surround the Pacific Ocean called?
What is The Ring of Fire?
What type of plate boundary "separates", "divides", or moves away from other plates?
What is Diverge.
This scientist first developed the theory of Plate Tectonics and conducted research to support Wegener's claim of continental drift
Who is/was Dr. Harry Hess
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A fossil that provides evidence for organisms transitioning from living in water to land.
What is a Transitional Fossil?
What are the three types of plate boundaries called? (Hint--how do they move?)
What are: diverge, converge, transform.
Which type of plate boundary is associated with "Subduction" and the creation of volcanoes?
What are Convergent/Converging.
What type of plate boundary "slides past" one another?
What is Transform?
Wegener's theory of continental drift stated that Pangaea first broke apart into which two continents?
What is Laurasia and Gondwandaland
When molds fill in with minerals or sediments that later harden, this results in which type of fossil?
What is a Cast Fossil?