How can you move a mountain?

Mountains grow and shift due to plate tectonics, One stone at a time

Which evidence does NOT support the Theory of Continental Drift?

The Nazca plate contains oceanic crust

How do the tectonic plates move?

They drift because of convection in the asthenosphere

________ proposed the Theory of ________.

Alfred Wegener, Continental Drift

New crust is formed when...

Magma at mid-ocean ridges or volcanoes harden into rock

Old crust is destroyed when...

One plate slides under another and is melted in the mantle

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Tectonic Plates

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1
How can you move a mountain?
Mountains grow and shift due to plate tectonics
You can't because they're too old
You can't because they're not alive
One stone at a time
2
Which evidence does NOT support the Theory of Continental Drift?
Oceanic crust in the mid-ocean is newer (seafloor spreading)
Matching fossils are found on continents separated by oceans
The Nazca plate contains oceanic crust
The continents fit together like a puzzle
3
Mid-ocean ridges and rift valleys occur at what type of plate boundary?
Convergent Boundaries
Transform Boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
4
200-300 million years ago, continents were joined in one supercontinent called ______.
Panthalassa
Laurasia
Gondwana
Pangea
5
A car crash is most similar to a...
Convergent boundary
Divergent boundary
Transform boundary
6
When two plates move away from each other, we call that a...
Divergent Boundary
Convergent Boundary
Convection
Transform Boundary
7
When two continental plates collide, what most often happens? (Hint: graham crackers)
Mountain ranges form
Earthquakes occur
The plates break and rift valleys form
One plate slips under the other, and creates a volcano
8
How do the tectonic plates move?
They drift because of convection in the asthenosphere
They are pushed apart because of their magnetic fields
Global warming is causing the oceans to increase in size
The continents are floating on the ocean, and drift slowly
9
When two plates collide, we call that a...
Transform Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Convection
Convergent Boundary
10
________ proposed the Theory of ________.
Charles Darwin, Mountain Building
Isaac Newton, Seafloor Spreading
Alfred Wegener, Continental Drift
Bill Nye, Plate Tectonics
11
New crust is formed when...
Tectonic plates stretch out and increase in size
Earthquakes occur at transform boundaries
Magma at mid-ocean ridges or volcanoes harden into rock
Mountains are created
12
What most often occurs/forms at transform boundaries?
Mountains
Ridges
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
13
When two plates slide past each other, we call that a...
Convection
Transform Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Convergent Boundary
14
Old crust is destroyed when...
Weathering and erosion decrease size of mountain ranges
Rock slides occur
One plate slides under another and is melted in the mantle
Tectonic plates break

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