Plate Tectonics

Question 1

What are plate tectonics

Answer 1

Large slabs of rocks

Question 2

These are lithosphereic plates

Answer 2

Tectonic plates

Question 3

What are the 7 major plates

Answer 3

Eurasian
North American
South American
Antarctic
Indo-Australian
African
Pacific

Question 4

Largest major plate

Answer 4

Pacific plate

Question 5

This explains the inner workings of the earth

Answer 5

Plate tectonic theory

Question 6

Give 3 tyoes of plate boundaries

Answer 6

Convergent
Divergent
Transform

Question 7

What boundary pulls plates apart?

Answer 7

Divergent

Question 8

What plate boundary pushes plates into each other

Answer 8

Convergent

Question 9

What boundary makes playes slide past each other

Answer 9

Transform

Question 10

What is pangaea

Answer 10

A super continent

Question 11

It is known as a super ocean

Answer 11

Panthalassa

Question 12

What is convection current?

Answer 12

Heated mantle material

Question 13

This happens after subduction

Answer 13

Slab Pull

Question 14

It slides down a slippery slope

Answer 14

Ridge Push

Question 15

Give evidences on plate tectonics

Answer 15

Continents fit like jigsaw puzzle
From fossils found in continents

Question 16

What are the basis of scientists to prove plate tectonics

Answer 16

Fossils