Plate Tectonic Theory
Plate Boundaries
Earthquakes, Mountains, and Volcanoes
Extra Vocab
Mystery Box
100
Alfred Wegner proposed that all the continents were once part of a super continent called this.
What is Pangaea?
100
This type of plate boundary
What is a transform plate boundary?
100
These geological events occur at transform plate boundaries.
What are earthquakes?
100
The crust and the upper portion of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
100
This is the number of students in this class.
200
The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called this.
What is continental drift?
200
This type of plate boundary can create mid-ocean ridges.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
200
This specific type of plate boundary creates some of the largest mountain ranges in the world.
What are continental-continental convergent plate boundaries?
200
This represents the strength of an earthquake.
What is the magnitude?
200
This is the highest grossing movie of all-time.
What is Avatar?
300
The circulation of magma caused by temperature differences in the mantle.
What is convection?
300
This type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
300
These volcanoes can occur in the middle of a plate, rather than the plate boundary.
What are hot spot volcanoes?
300
Magma that has reached the earth's surface.
What is lava?
300
This athlete has the most Olympic medals of all time.
Who is Michael Phelps?
400
These are huge, moving slabs of rock that make up the earth's surface.
What are Tectonic Plates?
400
The process of one plate sliding under another and back into the mantle.
What is subduction?
400
The break in a rock that causes an earthquake is known as this.
What is a fault?
400
The area on the surface above where an earthquake starts.
What is the epicentre?
400
This is the worlds most popular language.
What is Mandarin?
500
This technology provided important evidence for the theory by studying the ocean floor.
What is SONAR?
500
The process of new material forcing older material aside, causing plates to move apart.
What is ridge push?
500
Volcanic island arcs occur at this specific type of plate boundary.
What is an oceanic-oceanic convergent plate boundary?
500
These carry the energy of an earthquake and are labelled P, S, and L.
What are seismic waves?
500
This is the largest company in the world.
What is Walmart?