Continental Drift & Plate Boundary Notes Scavenger Hunt

Question 1

How does this image support continental drift?

Accepted Answer

It shows how the continents fit together like a puzzle.

Question 2

When plates slide past each other, it causes:

Accepted Answer

earthquakes

Question 3

The cracks where one plate touches another plate are called:

Accepted Answer

plate boundaries

Question 4

Look at where the Glossopteris plant (green) has been found. What does this evidence prove?

Accepted Answer

the continents were once together for the plant to grow

Question 5

The Earth's crust has cracks that break up the crust into pieces called:

Accepted Answer

plates

Question 6

The evidence helps scientists realize that the continents are only moving because they are:

Accepted Answer

on top of plates that are actually moving

Question 7

What is happening with the plates at location 2?

Accepted Answer

Mid-ocean ridge where the plates separate and magma comes up

Question 8

Where would mountains form on the map?

Accepted Answer

Location 4

Question 9

How does coal in Europe prove that it has changed locations?

Accepted Answer

Coal can only form in tropical locations, like near equator.

Question 10

Maps of volcanoes and earthquakes (like this one here) have helped scientists figure out:

Accepted Answer

where plate boundaries are

Question 11

What is another piece of evidence for continental drift seen on this map?

Accepted Answer

Organism fossils that couldn't swim far found on continents

Question 12

What type of plate movement is causing the ocean trench?

Accepted Answer

the plates are pushing together and one slides under another

Question 13

Where would a strong earthquake most likely happen?

Accepted Answer

Location 5

Question 14

The Theory of Continental Drift was developed by a scientist named:

Accepted Answer

Alfred Wegener

Question 15

What did this earthquake data help scientists find?

Accepted Answer

Where the plate boundaries are

Question 16

There is glacier evidence in Africa. What does this prove?

Accepted Answer

Africa was once near the poles and has since moved.

Question 17

When plates separate underwater, magma comes up and forms:

Accepted Answer

mid-ocean ridges

Question 18

There are glacial deposits (remains of glaciers) near the equator in Africa. This proves:

Accepted Answer

Too warm in equator for glacier Africa used to be near SPole

Question 19

What color represents the new sea floor?

Accepted Answer

red

Question 20

What type of plate movement is causing this landform?

Accepted Answer

plates pushing together

Question 21

Plate boundary _______________ cause the landforms and events to occur.

Accepted Answer

interactions

Question 22

When plates push together & one plate bends under another, it forms:

Accepted Answer

ocean trenches

Question 23

What is the evidence? "The same sediments have been found on separate continents."

Accepted Answer

Rock Layers

Question 24

To identify a plate boundary, look for a concentration of:

Accepted Answer

landforms and events

Question 25

What is the evidence? "_______ can only form in tropical places but is found in Antarctica."

Accepted Answer

Coal

Question 26

What is the evidence?

Accepted Answer

The continents appear to match up like pieces of a puzzle.

Question 27

Look at the new sea floor. What are the plates doing at these locations?

Accepted Answer

separating

Question 28

Continental Drift is an idea composed of _____ claims.

Accepted Answer

two

Question 29

The brown represents mountain ranges. How does this provide evidence for continental drift?

Accepted Answer

mountains formed when the continents were together

Question 30

Another claim of continental drift is:

Accepted Answer

The continents have moved and are still moving

Question 31

When plates push together it forms:

Accepted Answer

mountains

Question 32

One claim of continental drift is:

Accepted Answer

the continents used to be connected

Continental Drift & Plate Boundary Notes Scavenger Hunt

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Continental Drift & Plate Boundary Notes Scavenger Hunt

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