Vocabulary
The thinnest, upper layer of the Earth
What is the crust
The Earth's crust is made up of these.
What are tectonic plates?
Before the continent's drifted there were this many continents?
What is one?
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
What is a plate boundary or plate margin
This is the size of an earthquake
What is magnitude?
This is how many continents there are now.
This results when blocks of Earth slip pas each other.
What is an earthquake
Can be caused by underwater earthquakes.
What is a tsunami?
Plates are constantly doing this.
What is moving around into each other?/Bumping into each other/crashing into each other
Evidence of tropical plants were found on this continent
What is Antarctica?
Name 2 of the major plates
What is any of the following North American plate, South American plate, Eurasian Plate, Indoaustralia plate, African plate, Antarctica plate, Cocos Plate, Pacific Plate
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
What is earthquakes
States that youngest rocks of OCEAN FLOOR are at divergent boundaries, moving outward from each other
What is seafloor spreading
The center of the Earth.
What is the core?
This is the name of the supercontinent
What is Pangea?
These are cracks in the Earth's crust
What are faults?
Active, dormant and extinct
What are the three types of volcanoes?
The layer of molten rock below the crust.
What is the mantle?
This is one type of evidence that support Continental Drift Theory (DOUBLE JEOPARDYY!!!!!)
what are fossils, what is shapes of the continent edges, what landforms, what are plant evidence, coal beds
When one tectonic plate moves under another, this often causes volcanoes.
What is subduction
An area of Earth where extreme Seismic activity- many earthquakes and volcanoes. (DOUBLE JEOPARDYYYYY!)
What is the Ring of Fire?