Definitions
The study of the formation and movement of plates
What is Plate Tectonics?
A hypothesis that originally proposed that the continents had once joined to form a single supercontinent
What is continental drift?
When two plates move side by side with each other resulting in frequent earthquakes
What are transform plate boundaries?
This is the type of plate boundary that is between South American plate and the Nazca Plate
What are convergent boundaries?
Name the only state that ends in K
What is New York?
A term used to refer to this supercontinent
What is Pangaea?
Sections of the lithosphere (Earth's solid core) that moves around
What are plates?
When two plates are moving away from each other
What are Divergent Plate Boundaries?
This is the type of plate boundary between the Pacific Plate and Antarctic Plate
What are divergent plate boundaries?
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A type of convergent boundary when the crusts of two oceanic plates meet, usually forming island arcs
What are ocean to ocean boundaries?
The type if convergent plate boundary when two continental plates meet and buckle up forming large mountains
What are continental to continental boundaries?
When two lithospheric plates come together
What are convergent boundaries?
The two plates that have a complex or uncertain plate boundary between them
What are Eurasian and North American Plates
if you put the 50 states in alphabetical order, this would be the last state
What is Wyoming?
This is divided into sections called plates that move and continually change shape and size.It's the Earth's crust and the outermost layer.
What is the lithosphere?
Evidence that supported the hypothesis of continental drift?
What are matching continential lines, matching fossils, and matching rocks and structures
Where subduction zones are found
What is around the edges of some plates
A cube has this many straight edges
What is 12?
Partially melted layer that flows slowly and is located below the lithosphere.
What is the asthenosphere?
Name of the scientist who proposed the radical hypothesis of Continental Drift?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
A mid-ocean ridge that runs the length of the Atlantic
What is the Mid Atlantic Ridge?
Name the two plates that have a complex or uncertain plate boundary
What are the Eurasian and the North American Plates?
When is the only time when you can cross a double yellow line while driving
When you are making a left turn into driveways, alleys, and businesses