Continental Drift
The name of the supercontinent when all continents were connected
What is Pangaea?
The densest layer of the Earth
What is the core?
The number of types of plate boundaries
what is 3?
The continuous mass of water that covers most of the ocean.
What is world ocean?
The life-important compound missing from Earth at its beginning
What is water?
The man credited with the theory of continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The Earth's core is rich in this element
A plate boundary where plates pull apart
The smallest and shallowest ocean
T/F The big bang theory describes how the Earth was created.
The oldest crust is found at this landform.
What is trench?
The solid, but plasma-like layer of the Earth
What is the mantle?
California lies on this type of boundary.
What is transform?
What is the pacific ocean?
the Earth's temperature at the beginning of its creation
Harry Hess discovered this large piece of evidence to support continental drift in 1962.
What are mid-ocean ridges
Crust made of granite
What is continental crust?
Island arcs are formed at this kind of plate boundary
What is convergent (oceanic-oceanic)
A body of water smaller than an ocean that is partially enclosed by land
what is sea?
Earth's early atmosphere lacked...
What is oxygen?
These ancient items found in coal beds supported continental drift
What are fossils?
The thickest type of crust
What is continental?
The process responsible for moving plates
What is convection currents?
A small body of water that is mostly cut off from the ocean by landforms.
What is gulf?
The first organisms were (autotrophs/heterotrophs).
What is heterotroph?