Plate Tectonics
What is the supercontinent that combined all countries and continents billions of years ago?
Pangaea
What are the moving plates on the Earth's crust called?
Tectonic Plates
What is created at a transform boundary?
Earthquakes
What is the area called where most volcanoes in the world form?
Ring of Fire
What are the 4 units of science that were taught in 7th Grade?
What was the name of the scientist who wrote a book about how the continents are moving around on the surface of the earth?
Alfred Weneger
Describe a divergent boundary
Forms when two plates separate.
What is created when there is a divergent boundary?
Mid ocean ridges or great rift valleys
What is the difference between magma and lava?
Magma is molten rock below the surface of the earth. Lava is molten rock above the surface of the earth
What is the first layer of the atmosphere?
Troposphere
Extra points:
What are the layers in order after this one?
What causes the tectonic plates to move around on the surface of the earth?
Convection currents in the mantle
Describe a convergent boundary
Forms when two two plates collide
What is created when a continental plate converges with another continental plate?
Mountains
What are the three different types of volcanoes?
Shield, Composite, Cinder Cone
The element Silicon has an atomic number of 14, and an atomic mass of 28.08
How many Protons, Electrons, and Neutrons does Silicon have?
Protons = 14
Electrons = 14
Neutrons = 14
What are the two types of crust?
Accepted answers:
Continental and Oceanic
OR
Asthenosphere and Lithosphere
Describe a transform boundary
Forms when two plates slide past each other
What is created when an oceanic plate converges with another oceanic plate?
Deep sea trenches, and Volcanic islands
What type of volcano has slow, oozing lava?
Shield Volcano
Name two organelles that are found within a cell
Cell membrane, cell wall, mitochondria, lysosome, Golgi body, vacuole, cytoplasm, ribosome, nucleus, nucleolus, nuclear envelope, chlorophyll, Endoplasmic reticulum
What were the four pieces of evidence that Weneger gave to support his theory of continental drift
1. Puzzle like fit of the continents
2. Fossil Correlation
3. Rock and Mountain Correlation
4. Paleo-climate Date
What is a subduction zone?
when a denser plates slides under the less dense plate.
What is created when an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate?
Deep sea trenches and volcanic mountains
Where do composite volcanoes usually form?
At convergent boundaries, where an oceanic plate subducts underneath another plate
What two taxonomy layers is a scientific name made up of?
Genus and species
Bonus: What are the 7 layers of Taxonomy?