| Continental Drift | ||
| #1 | Scientist who came up with the hypothesis of continental drift | Who is Wegener? |
| #2 | Continents drifted to their current locations | What is continental drift? |
| #3 | Evidence such as the continents' puzzle-like fit and similar ________ were found on different continents | What are fossils? |
| #4 | These type of clues are evidence of tropical plants in polar regions and glacial deposits in tropical regions | What are climate clues? |
| #5 | Mesosaurus fossils were found in South America and ________ | What is Africa? |
| Seafloor Spreading | ||
| #1 | The scientist who came up with the theory of sea floor spreading | Who is Hess? |
| #2 | __________ was used to discovered mountain ranges in the middle of many oceans | What are sound waves/sonar? |
| #3 | Magma rises at mid-ocean ridges because it is _______ dense | What is less? |
| #4 | The location of the youngest rocks on the seafloor | What is mid-ocean ridge? |
| #5 | Magnetic field ___________ are found on each side of mid-ocean ridges | What are reversals? |
| Plate Interactions | ||
| #1 | Boundary where plates move together | What is convergent? |
| #2 | Boundary where plates move apart | What is divergent? |
| #3 | Boundary where plates slide past each other with little up or down movement | What is transform? |
| #4 | Boundary where plates with different densities collide and the denser plate sinks under the less dense plate | What is a subduction zone? |
| #5 | The driving force behind plate movements | What are convection currents? |
| Vocabulary | ||
| #1 | All the continents were once joined together | What is pangaea? |
| #2 | Earth's crust and part of the upper mantle are broken into sections | What are plates? |
| #3 | The rigid layer where the plates are located | What is the lithosphere? |
| #4 | The plastic-like layer that the lithosphere moves on | What is the asthenosphere? |
| #5 | Differences in temperature cause these types of currents to flow | What are convection currents? |
| Features | ||
| #1 | Type of valley left when plates diverge | What is a rift? |
| #2 | Fault-block ____________ formed at both convergent and divergent plate boundaryies | What are mountains? |
| #3 | Earthquakes and ___________ are common along plate boundaries | What are volcanoes? |
| #4 | The San Andreas fault in California is this type of plate boundary | What is a transform boundary? |
| #5 | Two continental plates (similar density) colliding will cause these to form because they | What are folded mountains? |
| Final Question | |
| Wegener was a _______________ (type of scientist) | What is a meteorologist? |