Relative/ Absolute Dating
The oldest layer is at the.....
BOTTOM
The ancient landmass which connected all continents...
Pangea
What type of natural disaster comes form a TRANSFORM boundary...
EARTHQUAKES
Plate Motion is driven by the heat from the earth's _________.
CORE
Absolute or Relative:
My Black Cat is Older than my Orange Cat
RELATIVE
The youngest layer is at the...
TOP
The main evidence used for Alfred Wegner's theory of continental drift was...
Fossils...
Boundary where plates are sliding past one another...
TRANSFORM
The lithosphere made up of the upper part of the MANTLE and the ____________
THE PLATES
Absolute or Relative:
I am 16 years old
ABSOLUTE
The principle that states that the oldest layer will be closer to the bottom/ parent material is called...
The Law of Superposition
What causes the contients to shift in the location they are today?
Plate Motion/ Convection Currents
Plate boundary where plates are moving AWAY from eachother... ( sea-floor spreading)
DIVERGENT
The movement of the earth's magma in circular motions is called...
CONVECTION CURRENTS
Absolute or Relative:
My brothers cat is the oldest cat in the house..
RELATIVE
Radiometric Dating of a rock gives you the _______ age of a rock...
ABSOLUTE AGE
What causes convection currents...
Heat from the earth's interior/ core
When a CONTINENTAL PLATE and a OCEAN PLATE CONVERGE... What 2 topographical features form....
VOLCANO AND TRENCH
The middle largest layer of the earth which is composed of MAGMA
THE MANTLE
Salem is 4 years old
ABSOLUTE
When doing radiometric dating you use the % of parent material and the _________ of the element to figure out the age....
Half-Life
The science community was hesitant and did not accept his theory
Plate Boundary where two CONTINENTAL plates are CRASHING into one another....
AND
What results from this....
CONVERGENT
AND
MOUNTAIN
True or False: The oceanic and continental plates float on top of a fluid, molten layer called the ASTHENOSPHERE
TRUE
Radiometric Dating gets you the _____ age
ABSOLUTE AGE