Convergent boundaries is when two plates ______________.
What is come together (collide)?
100
What was Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift?
The continents were once joined together
100
Large waves that form after earthquakes are called _______________.
What are tsunamis?
200
This layer is solid rock and is made of oceanic and continental.
What is the crust?
200
When two plates separate, they are called _______________.
What is divergent plate boundary?
200
The name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago
What is Pangea?
200
A collision between two pieces of continental crust at a converging boundary produces?
A mountain range.
300
The crust plus the top of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
300
When two plates slide back and forth past each other it is what kind of boundary?
What is transform?
300
Three types of evidence used by Wegener to support continental drift
What is evidence from landforms, evidence from fossils and evidence from climate change.
300
This is where convection currents that move the plates of the lithosphere are found.
What is the mantle?
400
The only all liquid layer.
What is the outer core?
400
When one plate goes under another plate, it is called what?
What is subduction?
400
He provided the necessary mechanism to confirm the theory of continental drift by noticing mid-ocean ridges
Who is Harry Hess?
400
The geological theory that states that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
500
This layer is made of melted and solid rock.
What is the mantle.
500
Rift valleys and trenches are formed from what type of plate boundary?
What is divergent?
500
This reptile lived in freshwater, but fossils were found in two continents, Africa and South America. This provided evidence of Wegener's theory of continental drift.
What is the Mesosaurus?
500
What mountains did we learn are still increasing in height each year as the result of a convergent plate boundary?