Plate Boundaries
Theory of Plate Tectonics
Evidence of Plate tectonics
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Himalayas are this type of plate boundary.
What is Continental - Continental Convergent Plate Boundary?
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The German Sciencist who proposed the idea that is what the theory of plate Tectonics is based on.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
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Two things that must be match in the " Continetal Drift Puzzle"
What is rocks of similar type and age of mt. Belts?
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The solid, rigid outer portion of the Earth
What is Lithosphere?
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Another name for divergent plate boundary
What is sea-floor spreading?
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Rocks close to mid-ocean ridges are __________ rocks far from mid-ocean ridges.
What is younger than
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The evidence that supports the Continental Drift Theory is ..
What is Fit of COntinent, Fossil Evidence, Rock or mineral evidence, & paleoclimatic Evidence?
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Appalachian Mts. and the British Isles and Scandinavia Mts are example of what evidence
What is rock evidence?
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The number of major plates that have both continental and oceanic make-up
What is 7?
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Type of plate boundary that forms new sea floor
What is divergent ( sea-floor spreading)?
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Convergent plate boundaries are also called...
What is Subduction Zones
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When scientist develop a map that fits the edge of Continental Shelves and developed the theory of Plate Tectonics
What is 1960?
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Cynognathus, Mesosaurus & Glossopteris are example of what type of evidence
What is fossil evidence?
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Identify the 3 types of plate boundaries.
What is convergent, divergent, transform?
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The densest lithospheric material is (oceanic or continental)
What is oceanic?
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San Andreas fault is example of this type of plate boundary
What is transform plate boundary?
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The hypothesis that the THeory of plate tectonics is based on is...
What is Continental Drift Theory
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Tectonic plates interact at the...
What is plate Boundaries
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type of plate boundary that forms rift valleys?
What is divergent?
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A geographic feature formed at a subduction plate boundary is...
What is a trench?
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Plate boundary that is caused by plates sliding horizontally past one another...
What is a transform plate boundary?
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The name of the super continent proposed by Alfred Wegener that existed over 200 millin yrs. ago.
What is Pangaea?
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Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift was rejected because ...
What is it did not explain how the plates moved?
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the type of plate boundary that forms whentwo plates move together.
What is convergent?
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When hot magma rises tot he surface at a oceanic-continental subduction zone this is formed..
What is a continental volcanic arc like the Cascade Mt.Range
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