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Continental Drift is the idea that continents move slowly on Earth’s Surface is known as:

Mid-Atlantic, Alpide Belt, and Circum-Pacific Belt is where most earthquakes occur.

Alfred Wegener was a German scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift.

Harry Hess proposed the theory of sea-floor spreading.

People can not feel every earthquake that happens

Divergent Boundary is a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

Convergent Boundary is a plate boundary where two plates move towards each other and can form mountain ranges.

Fossil Evidence, Landforms & Rock Layers, & Glacial Evidence are Wegener’s evidence for continental drift.

Transform Boundary is a plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions

Subduction is the sinking of one lithospheric plate under another lithospheric plate is known as:

The energy of an earthquake is spread through Earth’s crust by seismic waves

Following an earthquake small tremors known as aftershocks can occur, lasting for hours to days after the original quake

Earthquakes happen when a plate scrapes, bumps, or drags along another plate

Pangaea is the name given to the ancient supercontinent

Magnetic Patterns (stirpes) are one of the main pieces of evidence for Sea-Floor Spreading

Wegener’s hypothesis of a supercontinent that broke apart was rejected because he could not tell how the continents moved.

Convection currents in the mantle are responsible for the movement of tectonic plates.

Once magma leaves the vent of a volcano it is know as Lava

Large pieces of Earth’s crust that move over the asthenosphere are known as the lithosphere

P-Waves are seismic waves that move with a forward and backward motion are called:

Melted rock located within Earth’s crust is known as magma