plate boundaries
What 2 landmarks can form at any plate boundary?
Volcanoes and earthquakes
what nationality was the creator of this theory
German
what direction do convergent plates move
convergent-together
what direction do divergent plates move?
apart
what direction do transformed plate boundary's moved
up and down/past eachother
what are the 3 main types of plate boundaries?
convergent,divergent,transformed
Alfred wegner
what happens when 2 oceanic convergent plates collide?
one subducts and They form a trench
what happens when 2 oceanic divergent plates collide.
They form a mid ocean ridge
what happens when 2 oceanic transformed plates collide?
earthquakes and volcanoes
what level in the earth are the plates in? EX: outer core iner core ext.
crust/lithosphere
what platform did the creator of this theory first use to express this idea
he published a pan flit/book/newspaper/paper any of the answers are correct
what happens when 2 continental convergent plates collide?
They form a mountain range
what happens when 2 continental divergent plates collide?
they form simple volcanoes and earthquakes mostly. since most divergent plates are oceanic
what happens when 2 continental transformed plates collide?
earthquake and volcanoes
what is it called when 2 edges of different tectonic plates meet? that's called a _____ line
fault
What is the theory of continental drift?
There was a time were all continents were connected with each other as a super continent but slowly drifted away from each other over millions of years
What are the 7 major plate boundaries?
African Plate: Antarctic Plate, Eurasian Plate, Indo-Australian Plate, North American Plate, Pacific Plate, and South American Plate.
what was this super continent named? and how was it spelled?
Pangea P-A-N-G-E-A