Tectonic Plate History
The formation when two plates move away from each other and new areas of oceanic crust occurs when magma rises.
What is seafloor spreading?
A lowland region that forms where Earth's tectonic plates move apart.
What is a rift valley?
Large slabs of rock that divide Earth’s crust and move constantly to reshape the Earth’s landscape.
What are tectonic plates?
The name of the smallest tectonic plate on Earth.
What is the Juan de Fuca Plate?
The type of convergent boundary that has two land plates coming together.
What is Continental-Continental?
The age of Pangaea, the supercontinent proposed by Alfred Wegener.
What are 250 million years?
A long, narrow steep-sided depression in the bottom of the ocean.
What is a deep ocean trench?
The place where two tectonic plates move towards each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
The name of the biggest tectonic plate on Earth.
What is the Pacific Plate?
The type of convergent boundary that has one land plate and one denser ocean plate coming together.
What is Continental-Oceanic?
The man who proposed continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
A curving chain of volcanic islands occurring around the margin of ocean basins.
What is an island arc?
The place where two tectonic plates slide past each other.
What is a transform fault boundary?
The tectonic plate we are currently on.
What is the North American Plate?
The type of convergent boundary that has two ocean plates coming together.
What is Oceanic-Oceanic?
This was Alfred Wegners actual profession.
What is a meteorologist?
An area under the rocky outer crust of Earth, where magma is hotter than surrounding magma.
What is a plume (hot spot)?
The place where two lithospheric plates come together, the denser plate subducting under the less dense plate.
What is a subduction zone?
The number of major tectonic plates on Earth.
What is seven?
The landform that divergent boundaries on land create.
What are rift valleys?
Alfred Wegner participated in several polar expeditions to this island (starting 1906).
What is Greenland?
The region around much of the rim of the Pacific Ocean where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?
The boundary where two tectonic plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
The tectonic plate that covers Europe and Asia.
What is the Eurasian Plate?
The landform that divergent boundaries in the ocean create.
What are mid-ocean ridges?