Weathering
Erosion
Volcanoes
Earthquake
Miscellaneous
100
Name two ways that rocks can weather
Gravity, water, blowing sand, chemicals, living things--like roots
100
When two plates grind past each other, it is called this type of boundary.
Transform fault boundary
100
Type of boundary where 2 plates move together, causing one plate to descend into the mantle beneath the other plate
Convergent boundary
100
Which theory does continental puzzle, matching fossils, rock evidence, and ancient climate support?
Continental Drift
100
An example of a transform fault boundary
San Andreas Fault
200
What causes stones at a beach to become smooth?
erosion by waves
200
The 3 main types of boundaries are...?
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform Fault
200
The process of one plate moving under another plate
Subduction/subduction zone
200
Evidence about ancient climates suggests that what once covered much of what is now India and Australia.
Glaciers
200
Iron-rich rock shows the location of the magnetic poles at the time of their formation is a property of what principle?
Paleomagnetism
300
Wegener thought that the continents began drifting apart about how long ago?
200 million years ago
300
This theory states that Earth rigid outer shell is divided into about 7 MAJOR segments and many other smaller segments.
The theory of plate tectonics
300
Volcanic eruptions are associated with what type of boundary?
Convergent Oceanic/Continental
300
The lithospheric plates move about this distance per year
5 cm
300
Himalayan mountain range is an example of what type of boundary?
Continental-continental convergent boundary
400
True or False: Many people believed and accepted Wegener's belief that continents move.
False
400
Plate boundary where two plates move apart
Divergent Plate Boundary
400
The divergent boundary at 3 ocean plates can result in this.
Rift valley
400
Africa and South America were once joined is supported by what?
Fossil evidence
400
True or False: Age of deepest ocean sediments increases with increasing distance from an ocean ridge crest.
True
500
Alfred Wegener wrote a book called...?
The Origin of Continents and Oceans
500
New oceanic crust between 2 diverging plates is responsible for what process on the ocean floor?
Seafloor spreading
500
The most common feature at a convergent continental-continental boundary
Mountains
500
The age of rocks in the ocean basins was determined by this type of drilling
Ocean drilling
500
The 3 types of convergent boundaries are?
Oceanic-oceanic, continental-continental, oceanic-continental
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