Layers of Earth
The moving together or colliding of tectonic plates is called _____________ _______________?
Convergent Boundary
The theory of continental drift was proposed by ________ ___________.
Alfred Wegener
These rocks feature layers or bits of particles cemented together
What is sedimentary rock?
The moving apart or separating of tectonic plates is called _____________ _______________?
Divergent Boundary
Theorize: What Mountian Chain runs to NC and determine the tectonic activity that created it.
Blue Ridge Mountains, Continental Continental convergence.
Metamorphic rock is created by what two processes?
Heat and extreme pressure.
The outer core of earth is: a. gaseous b. solid c. liquid d. thick liquid
d. thick liquid
The sliding past of two tectonic plates is called _____________ _______________?
Transform Boudary
Determined that the seafloor was spreading by using Naval Sonar tools.
Who is Henry Hess?
An undersea mountain range that forms at a divergent boundary.
What is a ridge?
Name two effects of a continental plate and oceanic plate converging.
Earthquakes and volcanoes
An underwater mountain chain that formed by sea-floor spreading is called a
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
What type of boundary produced the Aleutian Trench?
(trenches form at subduction zones)
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! What events occur in the asthenosphere causing the magma to circulate?
Convection Currents
The convergence of two continental plates will result in the _____________ and mountains.
Earth and Mountains
An example of a transform boundary is the
San Andreas Fault in California.
What plate boundary created the Mid Atlantic Ridge?
Divergent oceanic/oceanic
Seafloor Spreading