Plate Tectonics Review

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$100 Boundaries This boundary is responsible for sea- floor spreading

$100 Boundaries What is Divergent

$200 Boundaries This Boundary is responsible for building mountains

$200 Boundaries What is Convergent

$300 Boundaries This boundary creates mid ocean ridges and rift valleys

$300 Boundaries What is Divergent

$400 Boundaries This is the only boundary NOT associated with volcanic activity

$400 Boundaries What is a Transform Boundary

DAILY DOUBLE

$500 Boundaries This is the only boundary to Have a destructive effect on the Earth’s layers

$500 Boundaries What is a Convergent Boundary

$100 Think “Layers” The outermost rigid layer of Earth, consisting of the crust and part of the upper mantle.

$100 Think “Layers” What is the lithosphere

$200 Think “Layers” What layer of the Earth does the letter D represent?

$200 Think “Layers” What is the Inner Core

$300 Think “Layers” What layer of the Earth does the letter A represent?

$300 Think “Layers” What is the crust

$400 Think “Layers” What is the name for the part of the mantle that is partially molten

$400 Think “Layers” What is the asthenosphere

$500 Think “Layers” Name the two layers of the crust

$500 Think “Layers” What are Oceanic and Continental

$100 Lets get Movin’ A chain of undersea ridges extending throughout all the Earth’s ocean basins, and formed by sea-floor spreading.

$100 Lets get Movin’ What is a mid-ocean ridge

$200 Lets get Movin’ The growth of a continent along its edges is known as what?

$200 Lets get Movin’ What is Continental Accretion

$300 Lets get Movin’ The movement of one plate downward into the mantle beneath the edge of the other plate at a convergent plate boundary.

$300 Lets get Movin’ What is Subduction

$400 Lets get Movin’ What is the accepted primary mechanism for sea-floor spreading?

$400 Lets get Movin’ What are Convection Cells

$500 Lets get Movin’ This is the field of study of plate movements

$500 Lets get Movin’ What is Plate Tectonics

$100 Does it “Matter?” Is the inner core liquid or solid?

$100 Does it “Matter?” What is Solid

$200 Does it “Matter?” The outer core and the inner core are both composed of what two elements?

$200 Does it “Matter?” What are Iron and Nickel

$300 Does it “Matter?” What happens to the density of rocks as they become more interior to the Earth?

$300 Does it “Matter?” What is it Increases

$400 Does it “Matter?” This is a pattern of movement in a fluid caused by heating from below and cooling from above.

$400 Does it “Matter?” What is Thermal Convection

$500 Does it “Matter?” This is the record of the past orientation and polarity of the Earth’s magnetic field recorded in rocks containing the mineral magnetite.

$500 Does it “Matter?” What is Paleomagnetism

$100 Random How old is the Earth?

$100 Random What is 4.6 billion years old

$200 Random What is the name for the supercontinent that existed 250 million years ago?

$200 Random What is Pangaea

$300 Random What is the formula used to calculate density?

$300 Random What is Mass/Volume

$400 Random Why is the inner core solid and the outer core liquid (molten)?

$400 Random The pressure on the inner core is greater

DAILY DOUBLE

$500 Random Some rock sections found on the ocean floor exhibit a striped pattern. What is the primary cause of the pattern?

$500 Random What are changes in the Earth’s magnetic field strength and direction

Theories

What are two pieces of evidence that Wegener use to construct his Continental Drift Theory?

What are the puzzle like fit of continents and similar fossils on different continents