Boundaries
Plate Tectonics
Causes
Locations
Theories
100
What are the three types of boundaries?
What are convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries
100
What are the two forms of heat?
What are residual heat and radio active decay
100
What natural disasters are caused by plate tectonics?
What are Volcanic Eruptions, Earthquakes, Tsunamis
100
Where can convergent boundaries be found?
Where is Bolivia
100
How did Alfred Wegener use the continents to help his theory?
What is using them like puzzle pieces and how you could put them together to form one big puzzle.
200
What type of boundary is it when crust destroyed?
What is a convergent boundary
200
What is another name for lithosphere?
What is crust
200
What causes fold mountains?
When two continental plates collide
200
Where can divergent boundaries be found?
Where is Iceland
200
What year did Alfred Wegener put his theory of plate shifting into the world?
What is 1915
300
What type of boundary is it when new crust forms?
What is a divergent boundary
300
What causes subduction to occur?
What is when an oceanic plate and continental plate collide.
300
What forms block mountains?
What would be when faults slip and rise quickly
300
Where can transform boundaries be found? (HINT: in the USA)
Where would be California.
300
What evidence did Alfred Wegener use?
What would be the nineteenth century longitude determenations (longitude lines on a map), the shape of continents, fossil evidence, matching rock types and geological structures, and ancient climate patterns
400
What type of boundary is it when two plates slide past each other?
What is a transform boundary
400
What causes plates to move?
What is convection currents
400
What are two of the three mountains formed by plate tectonics?
What would be fold, block, and volcanic mountains
400
What mountain range is formed by continental-continental boundaries?
What would be the Himalayan Mountain Range
400
What guy was not trusted with his idea of movement of plate tectonics?
Who would be Alfred Wegener
500
What are the three types of convergent boundaries?
What is continental-continental, oceanic-oceanic, and oceanic-continental
500
What is plate tectonics?
What is broken parts of lithosphere that carry continents and oceans
500
What is one natural resource caused by plate tectonics?
What is fossil fuels, ore, fertile soil, and minerals
500
What trench is formed by oceanic-oceanic boundaries?
What is Marina's Trench
500
What is Alfred Wegener's Theory?
What would be believing plate tectonics moved and that is what formed continents and oceans.