Plate Tectonics

Question 1

What is Pangea?

Answer 1

A super continent where all land was joined together

Question 2

What are plates ?

Answer 2

A slab of rock

Question 3

What is the plate tectonic theory ?

Answer 3

When they put wegeners and hess’s ideas together that world was one big slab of rock called plates

Question 4

What are Convection currents ?

Answer 4

Rising and falling of magma in the mantle due to the heat from the core.

Question 5

What is the continental drift ?

Answer 5

The idea that the continents move closer or further away from each other

Question 6

What is Sea-floor spreading?

Answer 6

When the earths tectonic plates spilt apart , allowing new crust to form