Vocabulary
This is the name of the proposed "supercontinent" where all the earth's continents were once joined together.
Pangea
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
plate boundaries
how are mountains formed?
Convergent Boundary where pressure from below Earth’s crust causes the Earth’s crust to fold
This type of plate boundary involves one plate sliding past another plate.
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What is Pangaea?
The Supercontinent that contained all the continents that exist today
This is the meteorologist who first proposed the Theory of Continental Drift
Alfred Wagener
he mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary and ___________________ occurs here where new ocean floor is formed.
it is an example of divergent boundary;
sea-floor spreading
What creates volcanoes?
Convergent boundaries pushing together
This type of plate boundary involves two plates moving toward each other.
convergent
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
earthquakes
This is the rigid upper layer of the earth which includes the earth's crust and upper most mantle.
Lithosphere
The Himalayan mountains are the result of what boundary?
convergent
These features form as new crust rises to the surface during seafloor spreading
mid-ocean ridges
This type of plate boundary involves two plates moving apart from one another.
divergent
These features are produced on the coasts of continents where oceanic crust moves underneath the continent.
volcanoes or volcanic islands
This is the term for one plate being forced underneath another plate.
Subduction
Evidence of matching animal fossils from two separate continents are a result of what?
continental drift
What boundary creates faults?
divergent
Which boundary has a compression type stress?
convergent
which 2 continents look like they fit together like pieces of a puzzle?
South America
Africa
This is the term for the fracture created when one plate suddenly slides past another plate.
Fault
Pangaea existed this many millions of years ago
250 million years ago
through divergent boundaries
which boundary stress is tension?
divergent
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ____________________ boundary.
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