______ IS COLLIDING
CONVERGENT
What evidence was Alfred Wegner missing?
how the continents moved
_____ used to project sound waves to detect depths and sizes of objects. This allowed us to finally map the ocean floor!
SONAR TECHNOLOGY
Mesosaurus , Cygnognathus, Lystrosaurus, & Glossopteris found in places were found on separate continents and nowhere else. (Fossil, Climate, Mountain, Geometric)
FOSSIL
New crust can form at places in the ocean where two plates pull apart from each other.
DIVERGENT
Meteorologist who believed that the Earth was once a supercontinent called Pangaea. As time progressed these continents, moved and drifted apart.
ALFRED WEGNER
The theory describing how Earth’s plates move and what happens when they interact with each other.
PLATE TECTONICS
Which type of evidence shows that coal was once found in Antartica? Fossil, Climate, Mountain, Geometric
CLIMATE
______ moves the plates by rolling them along like a conveyor belt
CONVECTION
_____ is dividing
DIVERGENT
South America and West Africa seem to match up like a puzzle piece. (Fossil, Climate, Mountain, Geometric)
GEOMETRIC
______ is sliding past each other
TRANSFORMING
A theory stating that the Earth's continents have been joined together and have moved away from each other at different times in the Earth's history
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
Which continental drift evidence is it look at image? (Fossil, Climate, Mountain, Geometric)
MOUTAINS
One of the plate edges can sink below the other in this type of movements occur.
CONVERGENT
The continents of the Earth has cracks. These separate sections are called plates. How many plates are there? 10, 17, 20, 27?
17
______ moves plates by pulling them down at subduction zones
GRAVITY
_____ moves the plates as rising magma pushes at the mid-ocean ridge.
PRESSURE
These plates move sideways past each other and create a break in the Earth’s crust called a fault.
TRANSFORM
____ the name of the supercontinent that existed in the PALEOZOIC era.
PANGAEA
He came up with the idea that the continents move because the ocean floor is getting wider.
HARRY HESS