Vocabulary
This phenomenon is when the world shakes due to a build-up in pressure in the plates
What is earthquake?
This is the layer of the planet that we live on.
What is the outer layer/crust/lithosphere?
Continental Drift Theory stated that...
What is the continents were once joined together and have now separated?
What is a plate boundary?
Plates move at an incredibly slow rate, around ...
What is 1-3 cm/year?
Scientists can study the Mesosaurus and other dinosaurs by investigating these items.
What are fossils?
The Earth's outer layer is broken into these large chunks.
What is plates?
This man was the first person to propose Continental Drift Theory.
Who is Alfred Wegner?
What are earthquakes and volcanoes?
These are the large pieces of land that extend above the ocean. (hint. there are seven)
What are continents?
This layer of Earth is below the plates.
What is the mantle?
This layer of Earth flows and has convection currents that move its soft, solid material.
What is the mantle?
Evidence of tropical plants were discovered on this icy continent.
What is Antarctica?
What is magma?
(No, lava is not correct)
How long does it take for plates to move long distances?
What is millions of years?
What is divergent?
This part of the Earth, which is located underneath the mantle, is made of liquid metal
What is the outer core?
This new evidence helped scientists prove Continental Drift Theory, years after Wegner had passed.
What is seafloor spreading?
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
This term can apply to measuring cars, height, runners, and plate movement.
What is rate?
When plates move in this way, a landform such as a trench might be created.
What is convergent?
This part of the Earth is made of solid metal. It is the furthest you can go into the planet.
What is the inner core?
These two pieces of evidence about the continents led to the creation of Continental Drift Theory.
What is ...
1. the edges fit together like puzzle pieces?
2. fossil patterns matched across continents?
3. similar rock and land was discovered?
This mechanism causes plates to move.
What is convection currents in the mantle?
What can scientists use to view the inside layers of an object?
What is a cross section?