Essential Questions
What is the evidence of continental drift?
What makes the continents move?
What surface features are associated with different plate boundaries?
Vocabulary
Alfred Wegener
Continental drift
Sea floor spreading
Earthquake waves: (P waves, S waves, S wave shadow)
Earth's interior: (inner core, outer core, mantel, Asthenosphere, lithosphere (crust))
Kinds of crust and plate boundaries: (oceanic crust, continental crust, divergent, convergent, subduction)
surface features at plate boundaries: (mid ocean ridges, linear seas, oceanic trenches, volcanic island arc, volcanoes, mountain building)