Continental Drift
The supercontinent that Wegener proposed
What is Pangaea?
The type of boundary where two plates are sliding past one another
What is a transform boundary?
The instrument used to measure earthquake magnitude
What is a seismometer?
The volcano in Washington that had a big eruption in 1980
What is Mount St. Helens
The character in Ice Age that caused the continents to drift
Who is Scrat?
The name of Alfred Wegener's research
What is The Theory of Continental Drift?
The type of boundary where mountains, volcanoes, and trenches typically form. You also get violent earthquakes here
What is a convergent boundary or subduction zone?
The thing that the Richter scale measures
What is the amount of energy released by an earthquake?
The area where around 75% of Earth's volcanoes are located
What is the Ring of Fire
The deepest point on Earth (in the ocean near the Philippine Plate boundary)
What is the Mariana Trench?
Evidence that Wegener looked into based on the shape of Africa and South America's coast lines
What is the apparent fit of the continents?
The type of boundary that forms the mid-Atlantic ridge
What is a divergent boundary
The type of scale that both the Richter Scale and Moment Magnitude scale are
What is a logarithmic scale?
A cloud of hot, poisonous gas and rock that is present in some volcanic eruptions
What is a pyroclastic flow or pyroclastic cloud?
The cause behind the formation of the Hawaiian islands
What is a hotspot?
Evidence that showed the same species of freshwater dinosaur in Africa and South America, among other examples
What is fossil evidence?
The type of boundary that formed the Himalaya mountains
What is a convergent boundary
The magnitude of some of the world's biggest earthquakes
What is magnitude 8 or higher?
The type of volcano characterized by being the most explosive. It's typically cone shaped
What is a composite or strato- volcano?
How volcanoes help a Maleo bird
What is keeping their eggs warm?
A type of climate evidence that Wegener used to prove continental drift was happening
What are coal deposits or glacial evidence?
The layer of the Earth that the oceans and continents are apart of
What is the crust?
The type of plate boundary that generally produces the strongest earthquakes along with volcanoes
What is a subduction zone (or convergent boundary)?
The number of dormant volcanoes in BC
What is 18?
What is a geyser?