Vocabulary
The layer of the Earth made of hard, solid rock.
What is the outer layer
The layer found underneath the outer layer is called the _________.
What is the mantle
The Father of the Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
What is a plate boundary
The Himalayan mountains are the result of a ___________________________ boundary.
What is convergent boundary
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface
What are tectonic plates.
The layer made of soft, solid rock
What is the mantle.
Evidence of matching animal fossils from two separate continents _____________________ and _____________________
What is Africa and South America
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary. The plates are moving ___________ each other.
What is divergent boundary; away from
to examine something in detail for a purpose
What is analyze
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart
What is the Continental Drift Theory
Plates float on top of the _______________________.
What is the mantle
Evidence of tropical plants were found on this continent
What is Antarctica
Name the three major plate boundaries
What are divergent, convergent, and transform
_________________ are a result from the build up of energy at a plate boundary.
What are earthquakes
A long, deep indentation on the bottom of the ocean floor
What is a trench
The rigid part of the Earth including the crust and the upper mantle (makes up the plates of the Earth)
What is the outer layer
Pangaea existed this many millions of years ago
What is around 200 million years ago
This is the mechanism (what causes) the plates to move
What is convection cycles in the mantle
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ____________________ boundary.
What is a transform boundary
An event that happens when magma rises to the surface - can happen at any plate boundary
What is volcanic activity or volcanic eruption
The Earth's crust is made up of two different plate types - the _____________________ and the _____________________.
What are the oceanic and continental plates.
Continental Drift Theory was not accepted because it did not explain this
What is how the continents moved
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)
What is the name of the mid-ocean ridge that we studied in class?
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge