Continental Drift

What is Pangaea?

• Pangea was a supercontinent that was assembled from earlier continental units approximately 335 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago

• The gravitational pull on the mantle.

• How mountains are formed.

• Another name for Europe.

Transform boundary move in what direction?

• Away from each other

• They collide

• Slide past each other

• Create mountians

What happens on the surface of the Earth at a Divergent boundary?

• tsunamis

• mountains

• Ocean trenches

• Seafloor spreading and faults

What happens on the surface of the earth at Convergent boundaries?

• Seafloor spreading

• Mountains

• The plates crumble and explode

• The plate move away from each other

What is occurring in this picture?

*(Hint)* This occurs at divergent plate boundaries

• Subduction

• An Earthquake

• A mountain is being formed

• Seafloor spreading

What drives the movement of plate tectonics?

• Earthquakes

• Convection

• Gravity

• Wind

Where can you find the Ring of Fire?

• Pacific Ocean

• Black Sea

• Europe

• Atlantic Ocean

What is the Ring of Fire?

• The surface of the sun

• What Thor created his hammer with.

• Another name for the Mantle

• A large ring of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean.

What happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?

• A mountain forms

• Subduction occurs

• They form a fault

• It causes a hurricane

Tectonic plate float on which layer of the earth?

• Inner Core

• Mantle

• Outer Core

• Crust