The land before time
meaning all land(earth)
What is Pangaea?
12 in total makes up the Earth's crust
What are tectonic plates?
large pieces of a glacier that break off
What is calving?
molten rock that is stationary but rises through the earth's crust are known as this
What are hotspots?
super heated toxic gas
What are pyroclastic flows?
What is the earth's core?
When tectonic plates are moving apart
What are divergent boundaries?
The farthest a glacier travels before melting
What is a terminal moraine?
forms as plates move apart and reverses polarity
What are magnetic stripes?
another name for mudflows
What are lahars?
*triple points*He developed the Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Area where convection currents take place
What is the mantle?
As a glacier slid down N. America it dropped off these large boulders long distance from where they originated
What is a glacial erratic?
*double points*In the movie Ice Age continental drift Ellie and Manny's daugher name
Who is Peaches?
although they can occur anywhere, 95% take place at plate boundaries at the edge where plates meet
What are earthquakes ?
A continuous cycle that is the driving force behind tectonic plate movement
What are convection currents?
The San Andreas Fault is an example of this type of boundary
What is a transform boundary?
*double points*In the movie franchise The Ice Age, Manny is this species
What is a mammoth?
they discovered the now mid atlantic ridge beneath the atlantic ocean
What are oceanographers?
the point directly above a focus on the earth's surface
What is an epicenter?
Made of granite and basalt and about 5-70 kilometers
What is the earth's crust?
In the movie Avatar, the name of the species of aliens on Pandora
What are the Na'vi?
When glacial meltwater creates streams
What is an outwash plain?
lava curtains come from these types of volcanoes
What are rift volcanoes ?
*triple points* the name of the squirrel in The Ice Age
Who is Scrat?