History
What is the last name of the German scientist, the man who first started the plate tectonics theory?
Who is Wegener?
How do plate tectonics cause earthquakes?
The plates shift causing the ground to shake
The highest mountain range in the world.
Hint: Mountain range at the Indus River Valley.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
Unjumble the letters below to form a word osclvoane
volcanoes
When plates move towards other plates
What is Convergent?
When did Wegener come up with his plate tectonic theory?
When was 1912?
This layer of the earth is hard, ridged, and is earth’s thinnest layer.
What is the crust?
The layer of the Earth is subdivided into two regions, upper and lower.
What is the Mantle?
When plates move away from each other
What is Divergent?
Two examples of evidence of Wegener's theory
What are exact fossils and mountain ranges found on separate continents?
What is the Ring of Fire
What is the most seismically and volcanic-ally active zone in the world?
What long term effect from a volcanic eruption is good for people on earth (think of food)
What is good or fertile soil?
What are the 3 plate boundaries?
What are convergent, divergent, transform plate boundaries?
The Earth's outer layer is called what?
What is the crust?
The three major disasters plate tectonics cause?
What are Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes?
A deep-sided depression of the ocean floor
What is a trench?
This is what separates tectonic plates are called.
What are boundaries?
The plate boundaries that are found under oceans
What are oceanic plate boundaries?
This is what Wegener called the earth as a supercontinent.
What is Pangaea?
How do plate tectonics cause tsunamis
Underwater earthquakes occur causing the ocean to shake and water to form a huge wave
It is the only liquid layer of the Earth.
What is the outer core?
This layer is extremely hot and solid.
What is the core?
The plate boundary that is located under continents
What are Continental plate boundaries?