Plate Tectonics Jeopardy

pangaea

• what is continental drift
• what is mid ocean ridge
• what is super continent
• what is seafloor spreading

continental drift

• what is a fault
• what is ocean drift
• what is national drift
• what is land mass spreading

formed by magma at divergent plate boundaries

• what is mid ocean ridge
• what is volcanic arc
• what is uplifted mountain
• what is transform fault

new oceanic crust forms along a mid ocean ridge & older oceanic crust moves away from the ridge

• what is divergent plates
• what is seafloor spreading
• what is ocean trench

magnetized objects orient themselves to point north

• what is automatic polarity
• what is north polarity
• what is forward polarity
• what is normal polarity

magnetic field to reverse direction

• what is magnetic reversal
• what is south polarity
• what is opposite polarity
• what is polarity reversal

when magnetized objects reverse direction

• what is south polarity
• what is reversed polarity
• what is opposite polarity

one plate subducting under another plate at a convergent plate boundary

• what is a mountain
• what is transform fault
• what is ocean trench

curved line of volcanoes that forms parallel to a plate boundary

• what is ring of fire
• what is eruption formation
• what is earthquake
• what is volcanic arc

tectonics plates slide past each other

• what is transform fault
• what is convergent fault