Unit 3 Quiz Study Guide
Key vocabulary:
Pangaea, continental drift, convection, density, convection currents, mid-ocean ridge, sea floor spreading, deep-ocean
trenches, subduction, paleontology
Do you/Can you?......
a. Explain the theory of continental drift and provide evidence that supports this theory? (fossils, shape of
continents, climate, landforms).
b. Explain the process of sea-floor spreading?
c. Explain the process of convection currents?
d. Understand that continental drift and sea-floor spreading support our current model of plate tectonics?
e. Describe the field of paleontology? (using fossils to study past ecologies; paleo= ancient or prehistoric)
f. Explain how subduction is also part of the sea-floor spreading process?
g. Write about how paleoclimatology can be a piece of evidence to support continental drift theory?
h. Write about convection currents and predict what would happen if Earth’s core cooled down?
i. Identify the mid-ocean ridge, deep-sea trenches and subduction zones?
j. Explain the ages of rocks along the mid-ocean ridge and beyond?
Unit 3 Quiz Study Guide
Key vocabulary:
Pangaea, continental drift, convection, density, convection currents, mid-ocean ridge, sea floor spreading, deep-ocean
trenches, subduction, paleontology
Do you/Can you?......
a. Explain the theory of continental drift and provide evidence that supports this theory? (fossils, shape of
continents, climate, landforms).
b. Explain the process of sea-floor spreading?
c. Explain the process of convection currents?
d. Understand that continental drift and sea-floor spreading support our current model of plate tectonics?
e. Describe the field of paleontology? (using fossils to study past ecologies; paleo= ancient or prehistoric)
f. Explain how subduction is also part of the sea-floor spreading process?
g. Write about how paleoclimatology can be a piece of evidence to support continental drift theory?
h. Write about convection currents and predict what would happen if Earth’s core cooled down?
i. Identify the mid-ocean ridge, deep-sea trenches and subduction zones?
j. Explain the ages of rocks along the mid-ocean ridge and beyond?