Continent History
A single landmass made from all of Earth's continents before they separated
What is Pangea?
A section of the Lithosphere
What is a Tectonic Plate?
The area under the surface where rock breaks, causing an earthquake
What is the Focus?
The cause of volcanic activity
What are convection currents in the mantle?
An animal associated with witches on halloween
What are black cats?
Evidence of Continental Drift showing that certain features 'line up,' like mountain ranges for example
What is evidence from landforms?
A type of boundary where two plates collide
What is a convergent boundary?
What is a P wave?
Daily Double!!!!
What is Pahoehoe?
The colors of candy corn from base to point
What are yellow, orange, and white?
Evidence of Continental Drift showing that certain animals of the same species have been separated
What is evidence from fossils?
A type of boundary where two plates move away from each other
What is a convergent boundary?
A type of Earthquake wave that arrives second and moves like a snake
What is an S-wave?
Tall narrow volcanoes formed by repeated explosive eruptions
What is a Cinder-Cone Volcano?
What is a fruit?
Evidence of Continental Drift showing that continents moved from warm places to cold places
What is evidence from climate?
A type of boundary where two plates moves past each other
What is a transform boundary?
The cause of Earthquakes
What are convection currents in the mantle?
A cooled magma chamber
What is a Batholith?
The peanuts character who believes in the great pumpkin
Who is Linus?
The mechanism or the 'how' of Continental Drift
What is Sea-Floor Spreading?
Invented the theory of continental drift without receiving any credit
Who is Alfred Wegener?
A measurement of how large the seismic waves of an Earthquake are
Formed from magma squeezing through horizontal layers of rock
What is a sill?
The Romanian region where Dracula's castle is located
What is Transylvania?