Plates
This plate is the largest of the tectonic plates, making up an entire Oceanic Plate.
What is the Pacific Plate?
This formation comes from Convergent Boundaries and spews out lava from magma deep in the ground.
What is a volcano?
This huge area spreads like a ring around the pacific, known for its violent volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
This type of boundary sees two plates crash into each other and rise higher and higher above the ground.
What is a Convergent Boundary?
Alfred Wegner proposed that all land on Earth was a part of a supercontinent. That supercontinent is known as ________.
What is Pangea?
This plate makes up the continent we call home, where the USA is.
What is the North American Plate?
The tallest standing formations on Earth, this formation comes from convergent boundaries and makes huge ranges.
What are mountains?
This zone, found at divergent boundaries, is where the Earth's crust is being pulled apart, creating a lowland region.
What is a rift zone? (or Rift Valley)
This type of boundary sees two spread out from each other, leaving a big gap between them.
What is a Divergent Boundary?
Two pieces of evidence that support Alfred Wegner's Theory of Plate Tectonics.
What are fossil records and similar shaped coastlines?
This plate is the largest continental plate and forms the homeland for two continents.
What is the Eurasian Plate?
As lava comes up from Earth is cools and creates new land in the middle of the ocean. We call this land ________.
What are islands?
This zone occurs in the middle of a plate, known for it's volcanic activity.
What is a Hot Spot?
What is a Transformative Boundary?
This scientist used sonar technology to discover seafloor spreading.
Who is Harry Hess?
This plate is separating from the African Plate and is known for its seismic activity.
What is the Arabian Plate?
The deepest part of Earth's surface this massive gap was formed from Divergent plate boundaries near Japan.
What is the Mariana's Trench?
This zone is where mountains rise up.
What is a Convergent Zone?
This type of boundary involves a collision of plates that can lead to the creation of mountains or volcanoes.
What is a convergent boundary?
This scientist was the first to propose the Theory of Plate Tectonics.
Who is Alfred Wegner?
This plate crashed into the Eurasian Plate to create the Himalayan Mountains.
Also known as Earth's longest mountain range, this _______ is formed from seafloor spreading.
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
This zone occurs when an oceanic plate sinks below a more dense continental plate.
What is a Subduction Zone?
The boundaries between plates where one of three types of boundary collisions occur.
What are plate boundary?
This modern technology uses satellites to measure the movement of tectonic plates down to the millimeter.
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)?