Boundaries
How plates move, interact and change
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
Volcanic Eruptions, Earthquakes, Tsunamis
What are natural disasters caused by plate tectonics?
Researched this theory
Who is Albert Wegener?
Another name for Pangaea
What is the Super continent?
Moves away from each other
What is divergent boundary?
Openings in the earths crust where lava, gas and ash come from
What are volcanoes?
Found in the ground that helped with the pangaea theory
What are fossils?
Plates under the earth that make up the earths surface, they move because of intense heat.
What is the theory of plate tectonics
Moves towards each other
What is Convergent boundary?
When an oceanic plate and continental plate collide.
What is a subduction zone?
the hottest part of the earth
What is the core?
Split into this many continents
What is 7?
DAILY DOUBLE!! (2Xs the points)
When multiple animals and plants die in a short period of time
What is mass extinction?
when plates slide past each other
What is transform boundary?
Convection Currents
What causes plates to move?
What are convection currents?
found on the edges of the continents
What are volcanoes?
Alfred Wegener
Who discovered plate tectonics?
Mountains, earthquakes, and volcanoes are the effects of this boundary
What are the three effects of convergent boundaries?
A violent shaking of the earths surface
What is an earthquake?
A column of extremely hot mantle rock
What is a hot spot?