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Vocabulary
Vocab Part 2
Continental Drift Theory
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
100

This is the name of the supercontinent.

What is Pangea?

100

These are mineral replacements, preserved remains, or traces of past life.

What are Fossils>?

100
Created the Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
100
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
What is a plate boundary
100
The Himalayan mountains are the result of a ___________________________ boundary.
What is convergent boundary
200
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface
What is tectonic plates.
200

This means that each rock layer (or strata) is older than the layer above it, meaning rocks deeper in the layers are older in relative age.

What is Superposition?

200

These 2 continents "fit" together like a puzzle piece.

What is Africa and South America

200
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary and ___________________ occurs here where new ocean floor is formed.
What is divergent boundary; sea-floor spreading
200

This is one of the types of evidence to support Continental Drift Theory.

What is Puzzle Pieces, Fossil Records, Climate Clues, or Matching Rock Layers

300
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart
What is the Continental Drift Theory
300

These are scratches left on rocks by glaciers moving across land. 

What are Glacial Striations?

300
Evidence of tropical plants were found on this continent
What is Antarctica
300
Name four of the major plates
What is any of the following North American plate, South American plate, Eurasian Plate, Indoaustralia plate, African plate, Antarctica plate
300
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
What is earthquakes
400
States that youngest rocks of ocean floor are at divergin boundaries, moving outward
What is seafloor spreading
400

These words mean (in this order): To move away from, to move towards, and to slide against

What is Divergent, Convergent, Transform

400

Pangaea existed this many millions of years ago

What is around 250 million years ago

400
This is the mechanism (what causes) the plates to move
What is convection cycles in the mantle
400
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ____________________ boundary.
What is a transform boundary
500
Although the hottest layer of the Earth, this layer is solid metal
What is the inner core
500

Fossils of organisms that lived briefly but were widespread

What are Index Fossils?

500
Continental Drift Theory was not accepted because it did not explain this
What is how the continents moved
500
The two types of convergent boundaries
What is subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)
500
This is made when plates converge.

What is a mountain?>