Maximum Drift
The Second piece of evidence that Continental Drift is real! Hint: Mesosaurus bones found on both sides of the ocean!
What is Fossil Correlation
This happens when a when two plates reach a titanic breaking point
What is an Earthquake
This Volcano is located approximately 432 km from Nanaimo
What is Mt. St. Helens
These two types of evidence are found in First Peoples Oral stories which support tectonic plate theory
What are Earthquakes, and Tsunamis
Alfred Wegener could not find the answer to this/these question(s).
What is "How and Why the continents move".
The first piece of evidence for Continental Drift! Hint: A Jigsaw puzzle of continents!
This device is used to measure the intensity of an earthquake
What is a seismograph
This type of volcano can erupt at anytime!
What is an Active Volcano
What is First Nations
This is the type of current that move tectonic plates due to hotter fluid rising (less dense) and colder plates sinking (more dense)!
What is Convection Currents
What is the third piece of evidence for Continental Drift? Hint: Geography found on either side of the ocean
What is rock and mountain correlation!
This type of wave is formed when an earthquake happens over an ocean!
What is a Tsunami
These are the three different types of volcanoes. (1 point for each correct answer.)
What is Shield, Cinder Cone, and Composite
This is the term for the coast in which we live! Hint: It is the location for the northeastern pacific continental divide. (Not the west coast)
What is the Cascadia Coast
The thin outer layer of the earth's crust is called ______?
What is the Lithosphere
The fourth piece of evidence for Continental Drift. Hint: Dead Topical plants (Coal) in frozen waste lands of Antartica? Glacier Striations in the desert?
What is Paleoclimate Data!
The Richter scale measures the intensity of an earthquake. This is the magnitude difference between a 3 and 4 on the Richter scale
What is Lava, and What is Magma
This is the type of zone which separates the Juan de Fuca Plate from the North American Plate
What is the subduction zone
When two plates collide, the thinner of the two plates bends and slides under the other.
What is Subduction
What is the name of the Super Continent Alfred Wegeners proposed?
What is Pangaea!
Earthquakes happen most often on these types of lines
What is a Fault Line
These "spots" can help form volcanoes when they are not on a plate boundary. Hint: Hawaii was volcanoes were formed from these.
What is a Hot Spot
In the story of the Killer Whale and the Thunderbird. What happened to cause the earthquakes?
What is the thunderbird dropping the Killer Whale.
In what layer of the earth is Magma located?
What is the Asthenosphere