Plate Tectonics
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Plate boundaries, movements and the results of the plate movements.
Topics of this game:
- The thinnest layer of the Earth
- A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface.
- The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart
- States that youngest rocks of ocean floor are at divergin boundaries, moving outward
- Although the hottest layer of the Earth, this layer is solid metal.
- There are ______________ main layers of the Earth.
- The thickest layer of the Earth
- Plates float on top of the _______________________.
- The rigid part of the Earth including the crust and the upper mantle (makes up the plates of the Earth)
- The Earth's crust is thinnest under the _____________________ and thickest under the _____________________.
- Created the Continental Drift Theory
- Evidence of matching animal fossils from two separate continents _____________________ and _____________________
- Evidence of tropical plants were found on this continent
- Pangaea existed this many millions of years ago
- Continental Drift Theory was not accepted because it did not explain this
- Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
- The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary and ___________________ occurs here where new ocean floor is formed.
- Name four of the major plates
- This is the mechanism (what causes) the plates to move
- The two types of convergent boundaries
