North American Plate: "There's too much friction between us!" Pacific Plate: "It's not my fault!"
Catch my Drift?
On the Fence
It's What's on the Inside That Counts
Ain't No Mountain High Enough!
100
Breaks or cracks in the Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
100
The supercontinent when all of our present day continents were one land mass
What is Pangaea?
100
The area where two tectonic plates meet.
What is a tectonic boundary?
100
The Earth's crust and the solid top layer of the mantle
What is the lithosphere or tectonic plates?
100
Mountains caused by volcanic eruptions
What is a volcanic mountain?
200
When tension causes rock to be pulled apart and the hanging wall slides DOWN the slant of the foot wall.
What is a Normal Fault?
200
The theory that all of the present day continents used to be grouped together as one and have since drifted apart.
What is continental drift?
200
The three types of tectonic boundaries.
What are convergent boundary, divergent boundary and transform boundary?
200
The geologic process where the more dense crust sinks beneath the lighter, less dense crust and back into the mantle.
What is Subduction?
200
Mountains formed by the compression of rock layers
What are folded mountains
300
The type of fault caused when two tectonic plates break because of forces pushing them horizontally in opposite directions and they "slip" past each other.
What is a strike-slip fault?
300
The scientist responsible for the theory of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfread Wegener?
300
The tectonic boundary created when two tectonic plates are moving towards each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
300
The three different parts of the mantle
What are the lithosphere, the asthenosphere and the mesosphere?
300
The process that pushes rock to a higher elevation
What is uplift?
400
The stress that causes a reverse fault, which is when the rock is pushed together and the hanging wall slides up the slope of the footwall.
What is compression?
400
The geologic process that causes continental drift
What is seafloor spreading?
400
The tectonic boundary created when two tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
What is a Divergent Boundary?
400
Where magma rises through a crack in the earth and creates new seafloor.
What is a Mid-ocean Ridge?
400
The sinking of rock layers to lower elevations
What is subsidence?
500
The names for the two edges of a fault that slide relative to each other depending on which type of fault is present
What are the hanging wall and the foot wall?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
Ms. Doughty does this almost every weekend
What is hiking?
500
The San Andreas Fault is an example of this boundary
What is a transform boundary?
500
The layer of the mantle where the more dense tectonic plate get pushed back into during the process of subduction.
What is the asthenosphere?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!
The Himalayan Mountain range is an example of this type of mountain formation and was formed at this type of tectonic boundary.
What are folded mountains?
What is a convergent boundary?