Tectonic plates and topography overview
Which boundary includes 2 tectonic plates pushing against each other?
Convergent
What happens if a Continental plate and another continental plate collide with each other?
They push up against each other and forch each other up, creating mountain ranges.
Underwater feature that is a volcano
What is a seamount?
What causes earthquakes?
When tectonic plates collide and one gets pushed down.
A map that shows the depths of the oceans.
What is bathymetry map?
Which boundary involves 2 tectonic plates moving away from each other?
Divergent
Who proposed the Continental drift theory first?
Alfred wegener
A underwater feature that is where sea floor spreading is creating rifts.
What is a rift valley?
What causes tsunamis?
When a tectonic plates shoots up after being pushed down.
What happens to tectonic plates when they are forced down by another plate?
Which boundary involves 2 plates sliding against each other?
Transform
What happens in a divergent boundary?
Magma gets pushed up through the gap and creates new crust.
Causes the tectonic plates to move.
What are convection currents?
What causes continental drift?
Tectonic plates moving
The person who helped prove that the the sea floor was spreading.
Who was Marie Tharp?
The areas of the beach that are from the water is pulled to the highest water mark to the lowest watermark which is caused by the moon.
What is the tidal zone?
Which fault in California is moving in the opposite direction of the rest of the United States?
San Andreas fault
name of the layer of the earth that is where plate tectonics are.
What is Lithosphere?
What causes mountains to be made?
2 Continental plates pushing up against each other which causes them to go up and create mountains.
What was the evidence that alfred wegner used to find out about continental drift?
the fit of the continents, the distribution of fossils, the similarity of rock formations across continents, and evidence of past climates
This is where one tectonic plate slides beneath another, carving the deepest features on the planet and a vast, dark habitat unlike anywhere else on Earth. These subduction zones drive powerful earthquakes.
What is an Ocean trench?
What happens if an oceanic plate and another oceanic plate collide?
It creates a subduction zone and makes a trench.
The area of the oceans where there is a steep drop off.
What is the continental slope.
What causes volcanic eruptions?
When a subduction zone is created which melts the plate getting pushed down, causing magma to shoot up in an eruption.
Who was the famous cartographer that helped prove that continental drift was happening.
Marie Tharp