The Earths Structure Continental Drift Divergent Plate Boundaries
The Earth’s Structure Continental Drift Divergent Plate Boundaries Convergent & Transform Miscellaneous Plate Tectonics 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500 Final Jeopardy
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• ANSWER: The thickest of all the Earth’s layers and what it is made of. • QUESTION: What is the mantle and magma?
• ANSWER: The Earth layer that makes up tectonic plates. • QUESTION: What is the lithosphere?
• ANSWER: The two metals that make up the inner and outer cores. • QUESTION: What are iron and nickel?
• ANSWER: The process in the asthenosphere that is responsible for plate movements. • QUESTION: What is convection currents?
• ANSWER: Name the Earth’s 6 layers alphabetically. • QUESTION: What is asthenosphere, crust, inner core, lithosphere, mantle, and outer core?
• ANSWER: Huge underwater mountain ranges. • QUESTION: What are mid-ocean ridges?
• ANSWER: The name of the supercontinent when all continents were joined. • QUESTION: What is Pangaea?
• ANSWER: The scientist that formulated the hypothesis of continental drift. • QUESTION: Who is Alfred Wegener?
• ANSWER: The fossilized reptile discovered in South America and western Africa that supported continental drift. • QUESTION: What is the Mesosaurus?
• ANSWER: 4 pieces of evidence for the hypothesis of continental drift. • QUESTION: What is climate, fossils, geology and the coastlines of Earth’s continents fit together like a jigsaw puzzle?
• ANSWER: The other term for a divergent boundary in the ocean. • QUESTION: What is a spreading center?
• ANSWER: This is where hot rock rises from the mantle away from a plate boundary. • QUESTION: What is a hot spot?
• ANSWER: This is what happens to the crust at a divergent plate boundary. • QUESTION: What is it forms?
• ANSWER: When divergent plates spread this feature may result on land. • QUESTION: What is a rift valley?
• ANSWER: There are symmetrical patterns of this at mid-ocean ridges. • QUESTION: What are magnetic reversals?
• ANSWER: This type of convergent plate boundary causes the plates to crumple and fold to make mountains. • QUESTION: What is continental-continental collision?
• ANSWER: 2 plates scrape past each other at this type of plate boundary. • QUESTION: What is a transform plate boundary?
• ANSWER: At this type of plate boundary crust is neither formed nor destroyed. • QUESTION: What is a transform plate boundary?
• ANSWER: The 3 types of convergent plate boundaries. • QUESTION: What are continental-continental collision, oceanic-oceanic subduction, and oceanic-continental subduction?
• ANSWER: Name 3 features that result from subduction boundaries. • QUESTION: What is island arcs, deep-ocean trenches, and coastal mountains.
• ANSWER: The type of plate boundary marked J. • QUESTION: What is transform?
• ANSWER: The layer marked by A. • QUESTION: What is the lithosphere?
• ANSWER: The plate moving process occurring at location A. • QUESTION: What is a slab pull?
• ANSWER: The feature represented by A. • QUESTION: What is a mid-ocean ridge or spreading center?
• ANSWER: The name of the tectonic plate marked by the arrow and the type of convergent boundary it shares with the North American plate. • QUESTION: What is the Juan de Fuca Plate and oceanic-continental subduction?
• ANSWER: The two sub-continents that made up the super-continent of Pangaea. • QUESTION: What is Laurasia and Gondwanaland?
• ANSWER: The research vessel used to determine the age of sea floor rock. • QUESTION: What is the Glomar Challenger? Answer Question
• ANSWER: Scientists estimate the North American plate is moving southwest at this rate in centimeters per year. • QUESTION: What is 2. 3 cm? Answer Question
• ANSWER: The number of years it will take Los Angeles to become a suburb of San Francisco because of movement along the San Andreas Fault. • QUESTION: What is 10 million? Answer Question
• ANSWER: This term in plate tectonics comes from the Latin word “ducere” meaning “to lead. ” • QUESTION: What is subduction? Answer Question
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