Science

Question 1

all the continents on Earth were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. This gigantic continent was called ___________

Answer 1

Pangea

Question 2

What was the name of the ocean surrounding the supercontinent?

Answer 2

Panthalassa

Question 3

When did the supercontinent start breaking apart?

Answer 3

200 million years ago

Question 4

This is the German scientist who proposed the hypothesis on continental drift in 1912.

Answer 4

Alfred Wegener

Question 5

Tectonic is a term derived from the Greek word __________ which means carpenter or builder

Answer 5

Tekton

Question 6

This is the layer of the Earth that lies below the lithosphere. It is a layer of solid rock where the extreme pressure and heat causes the rocks to flow like liquid.

Answer 6

Asthenosphere

Question 7

How far do the plates move per year?

Answer 7

1 to 15cm

Question 8

This is the idea that the continents move around the Earth’s surface.

Answer 8

Continental Drift

Question 9

Magnetism resulting from the cooling of magma mirrors the existing magnetism of the earth.

Answer 9

Paleomagnetism

Question 10

The theory that the Earth has been shaped by sudden, often unpredicted, events that are short-lived but impactful.

Answer 10

Catastrophism

Question 11

The theory that changes in the earth’s crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes.

Answer 11

Uniformitarianism

Question 12

Heat can be transferred from one place to another through a process known as convection, a method of heat transfer that is usually observed among fluid molecules.

Answer 12

Mantle Convection Current

Question 13

This theory states that gravity and plates themselves are the ones responsible for the place tectonics through subduction process.

Answer 13

Slab Pull Theory

Question 14

This is a location where two tectonic plates meet.

Answer 14

Plate Boundary

Question 15

These are tectonic borders where tectonic plates pull away from each other and form a new crust. They’re also known as constructive boundaries.

Answer 15

Divergent Plate Boundaries

Question 16

Where can Divergent Boundaries be found?

Answer 16

Some are located on land but most divergent boundaries are found at the seafloor

Question 17

Give some examples of Divergent Boundaries

Answer 17

East African Rift zone
Iceland ridge
Mid-Atlantic ridge
The Southeast Indian ridge
Red Sea

Question 18

This is a place where two plates move toward each other, its also referred to as destructive plate boundaries. Its also where subduction zones are created.

Answer 18

Convergent Plate Boundaries

Question 19

What are the three types of Convergent Boundaries?

Answer 19

1. Continental-Oceanic
2. Oceanic-Oceanic
3. Continental-Continental

Question 20

When a continental and an oceanic plate collide at the convergent boundary of the two plates, subduction zones often develop.
The thinner and denser oceanic plate usually subducts below the thicker and less dense continental plate.

Answer 20

Continental-Oceanic

Question 21

Give examples of Oceanic-Oceanic convergent plates.

Answer 21

Japanese Islands
Aleutian Islands
Caribbean Islands
Philippine Islands

Question 22

This occurs when two continents meet head on.
This is subjected to extensive faulting and folding of the rocks within the two plates that are colliding with each other.

Answer 22

Continental-Continental

Question 23

This is a zone between two plates that slide horizontally past one another. This is also called conservative boundary.
These are generally vertical and parallel to the direction of movement, they form fracture zones and faults.

Answer 23

Transform Plate Boundary

Question 24

This connects two segments of a divergent plate boundary, plate movements are in opposite directions between the ridge crests.

Answer 24

Ridge-Ridge Transform Fault

Question 25

This connects a ridge and a trench, it forms an important connection between spreading and converging plates.

Answer 25

Ridge-Trench Transform Fault

Question 26

This is a couple trench at two different convergent plate boundaries.

Answer 26

Trench-Trench Transform Fault

Question 27

What are the three main layers of the Earth?

Answer 27

1. Crust
2. Mantle
3. Core

Question 28

What is the Continental Crust made up of?

Answer 28

Granite (buoyant and thick)

Question 29

What is the Oceanic Crust made up of?

Answer 29

Basalt (dense and thin)

Question 30

This states that the earth’s outermost layer is fragmented.

Answer 30

Theory of Plate Tectonics

Question 31

This earth is likened to a grape that contracted into a raisin due to a cooling process.

Answer 31

Raisin Theory

Question 32

Proposed by Clarence Edward Dutton, States that whenever equilibrium exists in the Earth’s surface, equal mass must underlie equal surface areas.

Answer 32

Isostasy

Question 33

This is the first world atlas, published by Abraham Ortelius on January 1, 1596

Answer 33

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

Question 34

Are huge
mountain
ranges that
formed a
continuous
chain down the
centers of the
ocean floors.

Answer 34

Mid-ocean ridges

Question 35

A hypothesis that new sea
floor is created at mid-ocean ridges and that in the
process the continents are pushed apart from each
other.

Answer 35

Sea-Floor Spreading

Question 36

Who proposed the Sea-Floor Spreading hypothesis?

Answer 36

Harry Hess

Question 37

This is the supercontinent that predated Pangea.

Answer 37

Rodina

Question 38

What are the names of the two parts the supercontinent broke into?

Answer 38

Laurasia and Gondwannaland

Question 39

What is the Greek meaning of Pangea?

Answer 39

All Land

Question 40

Where is Mount Redoubt located?

Answer 40

Alaska

Question 41

Where is Mount Merapi located?

Answer 41

Indonesia

Question 42

Where is Mount Tarawera located?

Answer 42

New Zealand

Question 43

Where is Mount Sakurajima located?

Answer 43

Japan

Question 44

Where is Mount Kilauea located?

Answer 44

Hawaii

Question 45

Where is Mount Vesuvius located?

Answer 45

Italy