8.9ab Plate Tectonics Scavenger Hunt

The continents look like pieces of a _______________ that fit together.

What scientist came up with Pangea?

What was the name of his theory?

What evidence did he have to support his theory?

What discovery added to the first theory to support it?

Where do most earthquakes and volcanoes occur?

What is the Plate Tectonic Theory?

What creates convection in the Mantle?

How many major tectonic plates are there?

How are volcanoes formed?

What is a plate boundry?

List three crustal features that form depending on how the plates move relative to one another.

At divergent boundaries, what takes place?

What is formed?

What is a fault?

What is a convergent boundary?

What form there?

What happens when a continental plate crashes into an oceanic plate?

What happens at the Ring Of Fire?

What is a transform boundry?

What is the result?