Continental Drift
How did the continents get to their current positions?
Drifting over millions of years.
What do we call the large sections of the Earth's crust that move around the globe?
Tectonic Plates
What natural disaster can occur at the transform boundary of tectonic plates as the slide past each other?
Earthquakes
What are the two main parts of Central Nervous System?
The brain and spinal cord.
Which part of the brain controls balance?
Cerebellum
What evidence shows the same animals once lived together in continents that are now oceans apart?
Fossils
What type of plate boundaries spread apart to create new crust?
Divergent
What underwater event causes a tsunami?
Earthquakes
What are the brains coming out of the cell body of a neuron called?
Dendrites
Which lobe of the brain processes reasoning, planning and creativity.
Frontal
What landforms fit together to form chains when the continents are fit back together to form Pangea.
Mountains
What landforms tend to form when an oceanic plate subducts under the edge of continental crust?
Volcano arcs and mountain chains
Name three factors that can increase the risk of severe bushfires.
High temperatures, drought, low humidity, high wind, high fuel loads.
What does the autonomic part of the peripheral nervous system control: heart beats or kicking your leg?
Heart beats
Which lobe of the brain processes hearing and smell.
Temporal
What theory explains how the continents drifted apart?
Plate Tectonic Theory
What forms when hot liquid rises, cools, sinks and heats up again?
A convection current?
What was the name of the devastating hurricane that hit the Mississippi region in the USA in 2005?
Hurricane Katrina
Does the somatic nervous system control voluntary or involuntary actions?
Voluntary
Which part of the brain processes vision?
Occipital
What was the name of the scientist who put forward the evidence for Continental Drift Theory?
Alfred Wegener
What is the other important factor besides convection currents that drives the movement of tectonic plates?
Gravity
What causes the very low-pressure zones that can form cyclones over the ocean?
High temperatures.
Which part of the peripheral nervous system controls the fight or flight response to threats?
Sympathetic nervous system
What is the large part of the brain composed of the four lobes occipital, frontal, parietal, temporal?
Cerebrum