Vocabulary
Pangea/Tectonics
Boundaries
Rocks
100
Name of the single landmass when all of Earth's continents were connected
Pangea
100
Scientist famous for the idea that the continents look like they can fit together
Wegener
100
Type of boundary where two plates come together
Convergent Boundary
100
Type of rocks that form from the cooling of magma
Igneous Rocks
200
Wegeners hypothesis that the continents slowly moved to their current day positions
Continental Drift
200
Word meaning "all land"
Pangea
200
This boundary involves the build up of stress from two plates sliding
Transform Boundary
200
Rocks that form from the layering of weathered particles like dirt, dust, rock pieces and fossils
Sedimentary Rocks
300
Theory that Earth's crust is broken up into pieces
Plate Tectonic Theory
300
Evidence used to prove the existence of Pangea
Fossils and Mountains
300
Which Boundary Type is this?
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Divergent Boundary
300
When heat and pressure are applied to rocks deep in the surface, these rocks are formed
Metamorphic Rocks
400
Phenomenon that occurs when a more dense tectonic plate slips under another
Subduction
400
Possible cause of plate tectonic motion
Convection
400
The phenomenon is seen at a transform boundary
Earthquakes
400
Rocks that form from a volcano explosion
Extrusive Igneous Rocks
500
Geological process that adds new sea-floor at the mid ocean ridge
Sea-floor Spreading
500
Real theory behind the continents moving
Plate Tectonic Theory
500
The mid ocean ridge is responsible for the separation of Africa from the Americas, what type of boundary is it
Divergent Boundary
500
Underground cooling magma causes
Intrusive igneous rocks