Plate Tectonics
Person that discovered plate tectonics
Who is Arthur Holmes?
Person that discovered Continental Drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The item in the ground that measures EQ energy
What is a seismometer?
How most EQ are made.
What is a transform boundary?
Made of basalt.
What is the oceanic crust?
Driving force for plate tectonics
What are convection currents?
Continental drift did NOT explain _ and _ the continents moved.
What is How and Why?
The piece of equipment that records EQ energy.
What is a seismograph?
How mountains are made.
What is continent-continent convergence?
Made of granite.
What is the continental crust?
The sphere that allows the movement of tectonic plates
What is the Asthenosphere?
True or False: Continental drift theory came AFTER Plate Tectonics Theory
What is false?
The drawing of EQ waves.
What is a seismogram?
How volcanoes are made.
What is ocean-continental convergence?
More dense crust.
What is oceanic?
True or false: River formations are explained by plate tectonics
What is false?
Supercontinent explained by Continental Drift
What is Pangaea?
What is an SP interval?
How mid-ocean ridges are made.
What is a divergent boundary?
Thicker crust.
What is continental?
3 things formed that support Plate Tectonics Theory
What are mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes?
A piece of evidence supporting Continental Drift Theory.
What is continents match like puzzle pieces/rocks and mountains match across oceans/similar fossils on widely separated continents?
The name when you have 3 seismometer stations to find the epicenter of an EQ.
What is triangulation?
How mid-ocean trenches are made.
What is an ocean-ocean convergent boundary.
More brittle crust.
What is continental?