Vocabulary
What is the Lithosphere
What is the crust and the uppermost mantle, which constitute the hard and rigid outer layer of the Earth
The theory of Pangaea drifting apart
What is continental drift
What type of boundary is it when two plates move towards each other.
What is convergent
Where is the pacific ring of fire
What is the boarder of the pacific ocean
What was the soccer score between Australia and Jamaica this morning.
What is 4 to 1
This boundary occurs when two tectonic plates come together
What is convergent
This scientist who first theorized about continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener
What type of boundary is associated with Mid-Ocean ridges.
What is divergent
Why do earthquakes happen at transform plate boundaries.
Do earthquakes occur at divergent plate boundaries.
What is False
What is the Asthenosphere
What is the upper layer of the earth's mantle
Wegener used four types of evidence to support his hypothesis of continental drift, one piece of evidence was the discovery of the same type of fossils in which two countries.
What is Denmark and Greenland
What does a Continental plate-continental plate collision form.
What are mountains,
Draw a diagram of a convergent boundary consisting of two Continental Plates.
What is this
What is sushi wrapped in?
What is Seaweed
Plates of lithosphere are moved around by the underlying hot mantles ______ ______
What are convection currents
What piece of evidence led to the scientific community accepting the hypothesis of continental drift.
What are mid ocean ridges.
What type of plate boundaries are associated with earthquakes.
What are convergent and transform
Draw a diagram of a convergent boundary consisting of a Continental Plate and Oceanic plate.
What is this
What is the smallest country in the world?
Vatican City
The process that takes place when one tectonic plate moves under another
What is subduction
The pacific plate getting smaller or larger. Explain
What is Smaller, it is subducting under the Indo-Australian continental plate.
What are three important features of continental crust.
What is
thick
old
buoyant
What is a convection current.
It is the circulation of material caused by the difference in temperature and density.
Name the biggest country in the world.
What is Russia