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Mountain's are made
When two continental plates collide.
convection current
What is the mechanistic of Continental Drift.
The asthenosphere
What is where convection current's live
The broken up parts of the Lithosphere
What is Tectonic Plates.
The lithosphere
What is the ridged part of earths crust.
Granite, Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary rock.
What is the rock that makes up the continental plates
Alfred Wegener
What is the first person to state the Hypothesis of continental drift.
Fossils, climate, Geometric and Mountains
What is evidence that supported Alfred Wegeners Hypothesis of continental drift
The place where 95% of volcanos and earth quakes are located
The ring of fire of the Pacific plate, the largest tectonic plate.
At this boundary type earthquakes and volcanic arch islands are formed.
What is a convergent oceanic to oceanic crust boundary.
Earthquakes, volcanoes, subduction zones and trenches happen at this type of plate boundary
What is A convergent oceanic to continental crust boundary
The boundary type move past each other.
What is a Trans formative Boundary
A divergent boundary of continental to continental crusts will cause this type of land feature.
What is a Rift Valley where ocean crust is made on land.
A mid ocean ridge
Where the sea floor is spreading caused by convection currents in the mantel.
The Himalaya Mountains are a direct result of what type of plate boundary's?
Continental to Continental convergent crust
The Hawaiian islands are the result of
What is a hotspot.
Tsunami
A large wave caused by an earth quake underwater.
Slide, collide and Divide
What is movement of Trans formative, Convergent and divergent boundaries.
1915
What is the year Alfred Wegener proposed his Theory of Continental drift
Who discovered the "how" that Alfred Wegener did not have ?
Geologist and Naval officer Henry Hess
The age of rocks at equal distances from the mid ocean ridge.
What is evidence of the sea floor spreading.
What is the mechanism of sea floor spreading
Convection currents