Continental Drift
Double Jeopardy
Who developed the Continental Drift Theory?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The movement of a Convergent Boundary.
What is colliding?
The movement of a divergent boundary.
What is dividing?
What is the name of earth's timeline?
What is Geologic Time-Scale?
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Who is Drake?
What led Wegener to the idea of Continental Drift?
What is looking at a world map and seeing how the continents look as though they would fit together?
A Landform made at a convergent boundary?
What is a Trench, Mountain, or Volcano?
A Landform made at a Divergent Boundary.
What is mid-ocean ridge, volcano, or rift valley?
What is a cross section?
What is the inside view of an object from the side?
Double Jeopardy
CHICKEN NUGGETS
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Who is Chicken Little?
Which two continents did Wegener use as evidence for continental fit?
What is South America and Africa?
A team of geologists wants to study hard, solid rock under the surface of Earth. The team is considering drilling down in Saudi Arabia (on land) or in the Arabian Sea (on water). Where will the geologists find hard, solid rock?
What is in both areas?
At what rate do plates move in a year?
What is millimeters, centimeters, or inches a year?
Double Jeopardy
What is the difference between relative and absolute dating?
Relative dating is comparing the age of rock layers to others, while absolute dating gives an exact age.
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What seven continents make up the large supercontinent Wegener proposed in his theory? What was the name of this large land mass?
What is North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica?
What is Pangaea?
Describe how the plates and mantle interact at a convergent boundary.
What is one plate gets shoved into the mantle, and then it melts/gets destroyed?
Double Jeopardy
Describe how the mantle and plates interact at a divergent boundary.
What is as the plates pull apart magma/soft solid rock fills the gap and adds new rock to the edges of the plates?
What are two ways rock layers can get out of order?
What are intrusions and earthquakes?
MOVIES BY MATCHUP
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What were four pieces of evidence Wegener had to support his theory? Furthermore, what are two reasons people didn't believe him?
What is fossil evidence, mountains/rock layers, glaciers, and continental fit? Also, they didn't believe him because he was a meteorologist, and he didn't know how the continents moved.
Double Jeopardy
What is responsible for the movement of tectonic plates? Describe how it works.
What is convection currents in the mantle/soft solid rock? It is caused by the rising and falling of magma due to heat/density change.
Describe the mesosaurus. Include where fossils of this organism were found and why this was important.
A small reptile about 1 meter in length that was similar to todays crocodile. The fossils of this extinct organism were found on the coasts of Africa and South America. This was important because it provided evidence of continental drift or plate movement.
What are the four criteria a fossil must meet to be classified as an index fossil?
What is common, unique, widespread, and from a specific time period?
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Who is Johnny Cash?