True or False
According to the theory of plate tectonics, plates interact at plate boundaries by reflecting each other, moving away form each other, or sliding past each other.
What is False, Coming toward each other?
Plates of the lithosphere float on the ____.
What is the athenosphere?
The East African Rift is an example of a ___.
What is a divergent boundary?
Earth's plasticlike layer is the ___.
The downward part of a convection current causes sinking forces that____.
What is pulls tectonic plates toward one another?
The density of a subducting plate helps to pull the lithosphere into a subduction zone in a process called ridge push.
What is F, Oceanic?
The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called_____.
What is Continental Drift?
The Himalayan mountain range of India was formed at a ___.
What is a convergent boundary?
Plates collide together at a ____.
What is a subduction zone?
The driving forces of tectonic plates are related to convection currents in Earth's ____.
What is the mantle?
The circulation of material caused by differences in density is called subduction.
What is False, Convection?
Scientists have observed that the continents move apart or come together at speeds of a few centimeters per___.
What is a year?
What is a divergent boundary?
One plate is forced under another in a
What is a Convergent plate boundary?
At an oceanic - oceanic convergent plate boundary, ___.
What is the older crust is recycled by subduction?
If a continental plate and continental plate converge, a subduction zone forms.
What is False, Slab pull?
The crust and upper mantle make up Earth's ____.
What is the lithosphere?
What type of boundary occurs between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate?
What is a convergent continental - oceanic boundary?
A (n)____ is an underwater mountain chain.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
The youngest part of the ocean floor found ___.
What is near ocean ridges?
The result of plate movement can be seen at Abyssal Plains.
What is False, Plate Boundary.
Continental drift states that continents have moved___ to their current location.
What is Slowly?
The _____ is (are) an example of a transform boundary.
What is San Andreas Fault?
The main points of evidence for ____ are fossils, rocks, and climate.
What is the continental drift?
Features found at divergent plate boundaries include ____.
What is mid-ocean ridges?