What's That Word?
The German scientist who developed the idea that the continents slowly move over Earth's Surface
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The boundary where Earthquakes occur
What is all of them?
What landform is compared to a mid-ocean ridge.
What are mountain ranges?
The theory where the continents were once joined together in a supercontinent and have since drifted apart.
What is the theory of continental drift?
The supercontinent that Wegener named.
What is Pangaea?
The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past
The boundary where a rift valley will form.
What is Divergent Boundary?
The rocks that are shaped like pillows that form from molten material and harden quickly after erupting.
What is pillow lava?
The reason Alfred Wegener's hypothesis was rejected.
What is he didn't know what caused the continents to move?
The plate boundary that creates volcanoes.
What is convergent boundary?
The device that uses sound waves to measure the distance of an object.
What is Sonar?
The type of boundary that the San Andreas fault is.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The crust near the center of a mid ocean ridge is this compared to the crust further away.
What is younger/newer?
The specific transform boundary that is found in California.
The three pieces of evidence to support Wegener were land features, climate, and this.
What are fossils?
The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle
What is Subduction?
The boundary where Subduction occurs.
What is convergent?
The thing that comes from a mid ocean ridge.
What is molten material?
A piece of Earth's lithosphere.
What is a plate?
The word that best describes the magnetic stripes in the ocean.
What is even?
A deep valley where piece of Earth's crust diverge on land.
What is a rift valley?
The boundary that Sea Floor Spreading occurs at.
What is a Divergent Boundary?
This changes the size and shape of the ocean floor.
What are Sea Floor Spreading and Subduction?
The name of the area where convection currents exists that includes the crust and mantle.
The force that causes the plates to shift.
What are convection currents in the mantle?