Plate Boundaries
This plate boundary occurs when two plates move towards each other.
Convergent Boundary
This landform is created by a divergent plate Boundary
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Earth's outer layer is made of pieces called
Plates
This is caused by plate motion and stress
Earthquake
something we observe to be similar over and over again
Pattern
This plate boundary occurs when two plates move away from each other
Divergent Boundary
This forms when two oceanic plates converge
Ocean Trench
The mantle is made of this
Soft solid rock
This shows what the inside of something looks like
Cross section
The layer of solid rock surrounding earth is what?
the outer layer
this type of plate Boundary is located in-between South America and Africa
Divergent plate boundary
This is another term for a transform Boundary
A fault or fault line
The average speed that plates move
3cm/year
To examine in detail
Analyze
Convergent
This type of Boundary forms the deepest part of the ocean
Convergent Boundary
This is the term used when a landmass begins to break apart
Rifting
Iceland is located on this kind of plate boundary
Divergent
This describes how often something occurs
Rate
The process of using rock layers to predict the age of fossils or the rock itself
Relative Dating
This type of Boundary is located in California
Transform Boundary
The 3 types of convergent boundaries and the landforms they form.
Continental to Continental= Mountains
Oceanic to Oceanic= ocean trench
Oceanic to Continental= trench and Potentialy Mountains
3 pieces of evidence to support that the continents were once all together
Fossils of species known to have lived in the same place at the same time.
Similar rocks and landforms
Continents appear to fit together
Divergent boundaries in-between continents
This is the term used for liquid rock inside of Earth
Magma
The geologic time scale is divided into what
Eons, Eras, and periods