Alfred Wegner
What did Alfred Wegner hypothesize?
Name the three types of plate boundaries?
Divergent, Convergent, and Transform
A trench is a geological feature along what type of plate boundary?
Convergent
When two continental plates come together, what landform is formed?
Mountains
This term states the youngest rock on the ocean floor are at the Mid Ocean Ridge, moving outward
Seafloor Spreading
Why did the science community laugh at his idea?
He could not prove HOW the continents moved
What type of plate boundary is found at the mid ocean ridge?
Divergent
What are the two geological feature found when an oceanic plate and continental plate come together along a convergent boundary?
Trench and Volcanic Arc
What famous mountain range was created by two continental plates coming together along a convergent boundary?
Himalayas -- Mt. Everest
___________ are a result of built up stress along a plate boundary, the Loma Prieta one in 1989 was an example.
Earthquake
What was the name given to his super continent?
Pangae
The further away you get from the mid ocean ridge, what happens to the age of the rock?
The rock gets older
Along an oceanic and Continental convergent plate boundary, the oceanic plate sinks under the continental plate in a process called what?
Subduction
Daily Double
What two continental plates come together to form the Himalayan mountain range?
Which Ocean is currently growing as a result of seafloor spreading?
Atlantic
Wegner deems the process by which the continents moved this...
Continental Drift
How are the plates moving along a divergent boundary?
The Oceanic plate sinks under the Continental plate because...
The oceanic plate is more dense than the continental plate
The San Andreas Fault in California, responsible for the lethal 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, is along what type of plate boundary?
Transform boundary
Name the two types of crust (plates) on Earth
Oceanic and Continental
Daily Jeopardy
What are the 4 pieces of evidence to support the idea of continental drift?
What Causes continental drift?
Mantle Convection
When two continental plates come together along convergent boundary what happens?
Neither subduct
Name all three geological hazards that can occur along a plate boundary?
Earthquake, Volcanic Eruption, Tsunami
What is the name of the famous Transform plate boundary in California?
San Andreas Fault