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Alfred Wegener
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Plate Tectonic Boundaries
Pangaea
100
Who came up with the theory of Continental Drift?
Who is Alfred Wegener.
100
Two types of plates?
What is continental and ocean plates?
100
Shaking of Earth'c crust caused by the release of energy?
What is an earthquake?
100
What are the 3 types of plate boundaries?
What is divergent, convergent, and transform.
100
Name of the giant landmass?
What is Pangaea?
200
Where did he propose he's theory?
What is Greenland
200
Which plate is more dense?
What are ocean plates?
200
What is a break in Earth's crust where movement has occurred?
What is a fault?
200
What plates move away from each other?
What is divergent boundary?
200
What do we now know is the cause of continental drift?
What is sea-floor spreading?
300
When did he propose his theory?
What is the year of 1912.
300
Which plate is made of granite?
What is a continental plate?
300
What is the point where an earthquake starts underground?
What is a focus?
300
What plates slip past each other?
What is a transform boundary?
300
When did Pangaea exist?
What is about 250 million years ago?
400
What did Wegener study before geology?
What is meteorology, physics, and astronomy.
400
What cycle causes the movement of plates?
What is the convection cycle?
400
The point on the surface directly above a focus?
What is an epicenter?
400
What plates collide into each other?
What is a convergent boundary?
400
Is the breakup of Pangaea still occurring today?
What is true.
500
How did Wegener realize the continents were once one? (Name 3)
What is they fit together like a puzzle, same rock types on different continents, and the same fossils on different continents.
500
How many large plates does Earth have?
What is 8.
500
What can an earthquake be caused by? (2 ways)
What is an eruption of a volcano, landslides, impact of a meteor, or man-made explosions.
500
What boundary causes earthquakes?
What is all of them?
500
How many landmasses did Pangaea originally break into?
What is 2?