quiz #2 Flashcards
What is the name of the original Super Continent?
Pangea
What is Radiation?
Airborne heat transfer.
Divergent Boundaries
When two plates separate and create rifts
What is Conduction?
Heat transfer through contact.
What are continental plates made of?
Granite
What is an example of a Transformation boundary?
San Andreas fault
What do each of the letters stand for?
a. Oceanic Crust
b. Deep Ocean Trench
c. Continental Crust
d. Lithosphere
e. Asthenosphere
What causes Plate Tectonics?
Convection Currents in the Mantle.
What is the difference between a pace and a step?
A pace is two steps.
What two things cause volcanoes?
Subduction and Hot Spots
What are oceanic plates made of?
Basalt
What are the 3 types of heat transfer?
Convection, Radiation, Conduction
What is an example of a Divergent boundary?
The Mid Atlantic Rift
What is Convection?
Heat transfer through the movement of liquid(How plate tectonics work).
What were the three different types of evidence that Wegner had of his theory of “Continental Drift?”
Puzzle Pieces (How parts of continents seemed to fit together), Fossils (Identical species of dinosaurs were found seas apart), and Climate (Glacier tracks end on the edge of South America and continue on Africa, another example is a mountain range, rich with coal simply stops on the edge of America and they found the same exact type of coal on the edge of Europe facing the U.S.
Transform Boundries
When two plates slide back and forth next to each other
What does S.T.O.P stand for?
Stop, think, observe, And Plan
What is an example of a Convergent boundary?
The Himalayas(C. vs C.), The Mariana Trench(O. vs O.)
What are the layers of the Earth?
Crust, Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer core, Inner core
What is the name of the Super Ocean
Panthalasa
What did Hess find when he went to The Mid Atlantic Ridge?
He found that as you went farther and farther from the ridge the rocks got older and older and that every so many hundred feet the magnetic polarity switched, this means that at some point North will become South and South will become North. He also found that The Atlantic Ocean is growing ever so slowly.
