Vocabulary
An idea that can be tested by experimentation or investigation.
What is Hypothesis
German meteorologist who developed the hypothesis of the continental drift.
What is Alfred Wegener
Plates that move towards one another and come together.
Convergent boundary
Which of these natural disasters are most un-predictable?
What is Earthquake
Molten rock flows up through a crack in Earth's crust and hardens into solid strips of new rock on both sides of the crack.
What is sea-floor spreading.
Mid ocean ridges, if you could hold it in your hand, might resemble what?
Plates that move apart or away from one another.
Divergent boundary
What makes up the ring of fire?
What is Volcanoes
Sinking movement of ocean floor back into the mantle.
What is Subduction
What is undersea mountains.
Plates that slide past one another
what is Transform boundary
When an earthquake occurs, geologists use data from seismograph stations in different locations to pinpoint the earthquakes ________
What is epicenter.
Undersea valleys, considered to be the deepest parts of the ocean.
What is ocean trenches.
Which is the most prominent land feature formed by the convergence of the Indo Australian and Eurasian plates?
What is Himalaya Mountains
Which discovery confirmed that continents move on plates?
What is spreading of the sea floor.
The islands in the mid-Pacific ocean region were formed by _______
What is volcanic activity.
Ideas that are supported by a vast, diverse array of evidence. You can not have this without a hypothesis.
What is theory.
What feature most likely forms when an oceanic tectonic plate is slowly subducted beneath a continental tectonic plate?
Who is ocean trench.
What type of plate boundary would you find a rift valley that is growing wider?
What is divergent.
Which best explains the cause of geysers formed in Yellowstone National Park?
What is volcanic activity.