Plate Tectonics Review

A series of circular motions that occur in substances when heating and cooling happen together.

• Convection Current

• Plate

• Plate Tectonics

• Divergent Boundary

A large sheet of rock that makes up part of Earth’s crust.

• Convection Current

• Plate

• Plate Tectonics

• Divergent Boundary

The idea that the plates of Earth’s crust move due to the movement of magma in Earth’s mantle.

• Convection Current

• Plate

• Plate Tectonics

• Divergent Boundary

A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move away from each other.

• Convection Current

• Plate

• Plate Tectonics

• Divergent Boundary

A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move towards each other.

• Plate Tectonics

• Convergent Plate Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates slide past each other.

• Plate Tectonics

• Convergent Plate Boundary

• Transform Boundary

• Divergent Boundary

Who was the first scientist to notice that the continents fit together like pieces of a puzzle

• Abraham Ortelius

• Alfred Wegener

• Ms. B

• Mr. Ott

Who suggested that the Americas were torn from Europe by earthquakes and floods?

• Ms. B

• Alfred Wegener

• Abraham Ortelius

• Mr. Ott

Alfred Wegener thought that all the continents

• were slowly moving toward each other.

• had always been seperate.

• had once been part of a single landmass. 

Alfred Wegener called the ancient supercontinent

• Gondwana

• Pangea

• Laurentia