Boundaries
What type of boundary is it when crust destroyed?
Convergent Boundary
What is the top layer of the Earth?
What is the crust?
What is earthquakes?
What is the theory that the continents were once connected?
What is Continental Drift Theory?
Remains of plants and animals from the past
What are fossils?
What type of boundary is it when new crust forms?
Divergent Boundary
Broken parts of lithosphere that carry continents and oceans
What are tectonic plates?
What is Pangaea?
What was found on multiple continents that are separated by oceans?
What are fossils?
Geologic time known as the Age of Reptiles
What is the Mesozoic Era?
What type of boundary is it when two plates slide past each other?
Transform Boundary
What forms in the ocean at a divergent boundary
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
Amount of plate motion every year
What is 10 cm?
Who validated Continental Drift Theory by explaining HOW it happened?
Who is Harry Hess?
Age of rocks in comparison to other rocks
What is relative age?
Where volcanic arcs form
What is oceanic - continental converging boundary?
What causes plates to move?
Convection Currents
He believed plate tectonics moved and that is what formed continents and oceans.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Evidence that continental coastlines fit together like puzzle pieces
What era is known for Earth being rock and volcanoes, with no life?
Where mountains form
What is continental - continental convergent boundary
What is formed by a divergent boundary between two continental plates?
What is rift valley? (or continental rift)
Marks on rocks caused by glaciers
What are striations?
Types of fossils that are important to date layers of rocks
What are index fossils?