Lesson 1
Pangea is the ____ that Wegener suggested occured on Earth about 300 million years ago.
supercontinent
What forms the longest mountain ranges on Earth?
The Mid-Ocean Ridges
Earth plates meet at ____.
boundaries
As the continent moves ____ the poles, it's climate gets colder.
toward
Which section of Boston is home to Mike's Pastry, La Dolce Vita, and The Improv Asylum?
The North End
Wegener inferred that ancient ___ mesosaurus and lystrosaurus once lived on a single landmass that has since spilt apart.
reptiles
What process adds more crust to the ocean floor?
Sea-floor Spreading
Breaks in the crust called ____ form where plants meet.
faults
____ of the plant Glossopteris provided evidence for Wegener's hypothesis for the continental drift.
Fossils
What National League baseball team, now located in the southeast, was a Boston team until the 1950s?
Atlanta Braves
Most geologist of Wegener's time ____ his idea of drifting continents.
rejected
Where does subduction occur?
at deep-ocean trenches
transform boundaries
A deep-ocean trench is an underwater ____.
According to an old rhyme, Boston is home to the _____?
bean and the cod
_____ drift is the idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface.
Continental
What process or processes change the size and shape of the oceans?
both subduction and sea-floor spreading
What is the motion of Earth's plates like?
slow and constant
The pattern of magnetic stripes in rocks on either side of a mid-ocean ridge is the ____.
same
What does the red brick or painted line on the ground running through Boston signify?
The Freedom Trail
Wegener used evidence from the land features, fossils, and ____ to support his theory of continental drift.
climate
___ is a device that scientist use to map the ocean floor.
Sonar
What forms at convergent boundaries?
mountain range
The San Andreas Fault is an example of what kind of boundary?
transform boundary
What was the name of Boston's highway reconstruction project that involved "burying" the major routes through the city?
The Big Dig