Tear it up
The process of breaking down manually
What is physical/mechanical weathering
When plates collide
What is convergent
This German economist and socialist conceived the idea of continental drift in 1911.
Who is Alfred Wegner
Famous fault line in California
What is San Andreas Fault
The center of the earth is made of
What is iron core
The process of moving sediment from one place to another
What is erosion
When a thicker plate slides underneath a less dense plate.
What is subduction
Due to sonar readings and the discovery of underwater volcanoes, this American geologist proved continental drift was real.
Who is Harry Hess
What is the Ring of Fire, Cascadia Subduction Zone
The layer of the earth consisting of the asthenosphere and the lithosphere
What is the mantle
Alluvial fans a built from this process
What is deposition
This is a line that builds pressure up as two plates slide pass each other
What is fault line
The evidence of finding a remains of several Plateosaurus on two different continents separated by thousands of miles of sea is known as what type of evidence
What is animal fossil evidence
The asthenosphere was represented by this in the class investigation
What is icing
The layer of earth that sits on top of the inner core
what is the outer core
A large landform close to the city of Atlanta made due to converging plates?
What is Stone Mountain
The worlds longest divergent plate boundary?
What is Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The mechanism that gives energy to continental drift
What is convection in the mantle
The graham crackers was a representation of these in the class investigation
What is lithospheric plates
Plates are made of this layer of earth
what is lithosphere of the mantle
This riverbed shows erosion and deposition. This main river runs through parts of Tennessee and Atlanta.
What is Chattahoochee River
What landform is the highest evidence of convergent plates
What is Mount Everest, Himalayas also accepted
The level of the mantle right under the lithosphere
What is asthenosphere
This boundary is known for causing massive earthquakes
What is transform boundary
The part of earth that completes earth's natural recycling process
what is subduction zones