Plate Boundaries
This plate boundary can form mountains and volcanoes.
What is a Convergent Boundary?
This person proposed the idea of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The height above average sea level.
What is Elevation?
______ is what the scientists called the land when there was only one big continent.
What is Pangea?
This plate boundary slides past each other, causing fault lines and earthquakes.
What is a Transform boundary?
He proposed the theory of seafloor spreading.
Who was Harry Hess?
When the contour lines are close together on a Topographic Map, the mountain is ______.
What is steep?
The Ring of Fire is located on this plate.
What is the Pacific Plate?
A constructive boundary that forms mid-ocean ridges, rift valleys, and volcanoes; causes sea floor spreading
What is a Divergent boundary?
These two ideas were proof of Continental Drift.
What are Puzzle Piece of Continents and Fossils?
This is also known as the top of the hill.
What is the highest point?
Earth's Plates move because of ________ _________ in the mantle.
What are Convection Currents?
This occurs when two plates slide past each other at a transform boundary.
What is an earthquake?
Because of Wegener's and Hess's work, we have the theory of _____ _________.
What is Plate Tectonics?
A dip in the land shown on the map is called a ________.
What is a depression?
These two boundaries are destructive.
What are Convergent and Transform boundaries?
This is the result when Continental Plates Converge.
What are folded mountains?
Harry Hess went on this boat to collect samples of the seafloor.
What is the Glomar Challenger?
A map that shows shape and elevation of land.
What is a Topographic Map?
Alfred Wegener's proposed theory didn't take off until after he ____.
What is died?