Plate Tectonics
A supercontinent containing all of Earth's land that existed about 225 million years ago.
Pangea
The name of the plate boundary in which plates slide past each other.
Transform Boundary.
The 2 types of body waves produced by Earthquakes
The change in wavelength observed when a source moves away from the observer.
Redshift
The distance from a star where liquid water can exist on a planet's surface
Habitable Zone
The scientists who is known for formulating the continental drift hypothesis.
Alfred Wegener
The process by which old oceanic crust melts back into the mantle
Subduction
The point on Earth's surface vertically above the focus of the Earthquake.
Epicenter
The term that describes: As the star moves away from us and then towards us and we see the light as redshifted and blueshifted
Wobble
The name of the model that describes Earth at the center of the universe
Geocentric
The type of tectonic plate boundary that is located at mid-ocean ridges.
Divergent
The weak spot in the middle of a tectonic plate that Hawaii sits on top of.
Hotspot
Earthquakes can be found at this plate boundary in California.
San Andreas Fault.
The process within a star's core that produces energy.
Nuclear Fusion
Name all the Jovian Planets.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
The distance from a ridge at which the temperature of the ocean floor bedrock is most likely highest.
0
The layer of Earth in which most convection currents that cause seafloor spreading are thought to be located.
Asthenosphere
A huge undersea earthquake off the Alaskan coastline could produce this type of natural disaster.
Tsunami
The Sun is inferred to be the most stable when it is in this stage of its life cycle.
Main Sequence.
The celestial object in our solar system that has a period of rotation that is most similar to the period of rotation of Earth's Moon.
The Sun.
The 2 plates involved in forming the Aleutian Trench, where oceanic crust is sliding beneath the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific Ocean.
Pacific Plate and North American plate
The border between the South American plate and the African plate is best described as this type of plate boundary.
Divergent.
The distance from the epicenter at which a seismic station records a P- and S-wave time difference of 00:03:20.
2000km
Identify one piece of evidence that led astronomers to infer that the universe is expanding.
Cosmic background radiation; redshift; Doppler effect
The number of days that it takes the Moon to orbit Earth once.
27.3d