Boundary Zones
Boundary zone at Iceland?
What is divergent
What was Alfred's supercontinent called?
What is Pangaea
The plate that you live on
What is the North American Plate
The deepest part of the ocean floor.
What is a trench
What igneous rock is an oceanic rock?
What is basalt
Boundary zone on the southwest coast of the United States by the San Andreas Fault.
What is transform
What was Alfred's theory called?
What is Continental Drift
The small plate in the Pacific northwest that is colliding with the N.A. plate
What is the Juan de Fuca Plate
A low flat area along the ocean floor usually about 1/4 the distance from the coastline.
What is the abyssal plain
What is heavier oceanic or continental rock?
What is oceanic
Boundary zone on the west side of South America next to the Nazca Plate.
What two continents in the southern hemisphere match up nicely on the east and west sides?
What are South America and Africa.
Which side of the North American Plate is more active? West or East
What is west
The oceanic feature next to the coastline and is relatively horizontal to the surface of the Earth.
What is the continental shelf.
What is the driving force for the plates to move?
What is magma or convection currents.
Plate boundary at the state of Hawaii.
What is none
What two factors of the mountain ranges rocks in Europe and North America indicate that they match
The rocks are same type and age.
The largest plate in the world.
What is the Pacific
An oceanic feature in the middle of the ocean where two plates are diverging.
What is a mid-ocean ridge.
What is the area in the Earth that has the plates. Also known as the crust.
What is the lithosphere
Plate boundary on the east coast by the Jersey shore.
What is none
A mesosaurus can't do 2 things. What are those two things?
What are swim in deep salt water and fly.
Name the 2 smaller plates in between the North American and South American Plate.
What are the Cocos and the Caribbean Plates
The low area in between the mid-ocean ridge.
What is a rift valley
A subduction zone occurs at what type of plate boundary?
What is convergent