Vocabulary
Boundary where two plates move apart
What is a divergent boundary?
The individual who proposed seafloor spreading
Who is Harry Hess?
Boundary where plates slide next to each other
What is a transform boundary?
Mountains are an example of this boundary
What is a convergent boundary?
What is Ms. Miller's favorite winter activity?
Snowboarding (duh)
Rigid layer of Earth that is about 100km thick
What is the lithosphere?
Continental Drift occurs due to what process?
What is seafloor spreading?
The force behind plate movement where a plastic-like layer of Earth goes through a cycle of heating, rising, cooling and sinking
What are convection currents?
Mid Atlantic Ridges are an example of this type of boundary
What is a divergent boundary?
What is Ms. Miller's 7th period 6th grade class most excited to learn about?
Volcanoes (even though some of you will say nothing)
All the continents in one land mass; name means "all land"
What is Pangaea?
True or False: Ocean floor rocks are older than continental rocks
False: they are younger because the ocean floor is able to be recreated
When two plates stick and then slide past each other in a horizontal direction
What is a strike-slip fault?
San Andreas fault is an example of this type of boundary
What is a transform boundary?
What should we study for to prepare for our chapter 10 test?
Our notes and notecards
Device used to find rocks on the ocean floor that showed magnetic reversal
What is a magnetometer?
Oceanic Plates are pushed down into the upper mantle in what areas
What are subduction zones?
Continents slowly moved to their current locations
What is continental drift?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
What team is currently the best baseball team in the world?
The Atlanta Braves!
Research ship that gathered information about rocks on the seafloor
What is the Glomar Challenger?
The mountain range that are forming where the Indo-Australian plate collides into the Eurasion Plate
What are the Himalayas?
The plastic like layer of Earth (where convection currents occur)
What is the Asthenosphere?
True or False: While studying the ocean floor scientist found rocks showing magnetic reversal
True
What should you do if you are confused on something while you are studying?
Check your resources (notes, notecards, and textbook) and then email Ms. Miller