Download Chapter 17 Review Game Questions

Chapter 17 Review Game Questions
What is the name of the supercontinent?
Pangaea
Mid-ocean ridges are places where what is
happening?
Who had the idea of the continental drift?
Separating or moving apart (diverging)
Alfred Wegener
What are the four pieces of evidence?
What is the theory where new crust is formed
at ocean ridges and destroyed at deep sea
trenches?
Fossils, rock formations, coal beds, climate
Seafloor spreading
What do we call the underwater mountain
chains?
What geological feature is associated with
convergent oceanic-oceanic?
Ocean ridge, mid-ocean ridge
Volcanic arcs
What type of crust is older continental or
oceanic?
Name three five of plate boundaries and its
feature.
Continental
Continental-Continental Convergent –
mountains, Oceanic-Oceanic Convergent –
volcanic island arc, Oceanic-Continental
Convergent – volcanic mountain range,
Divergent – rift valley, Transform –
earthquakes
What is the definition of Paleomagnetism?
The study of the Earth’s magnetic changes in
rocks
What helps to make the continents move?
Convection currents in the mantle
What are the three types of convergent plate
boundaries?
What material is found in Antarctica that gives
paleoclimatic evidence of CD?
Coal
Oceanic-oceanic, oceanic-continental,
continental-continental
What is the main force that drives plate
movement?
Why was Wegener’s idea rejected by
scientists?
Convection currents in the mantle
He couldn’t prove why or how the continents
move
What uses sound waves to detect objects
underwater? Sonar
How would describe the ocean floor as you get
farther away from the ocean ridge?
Older and thicker sediment