Plate Movement
Plate Boundaries
Sea-Floor Spreading
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What is the generic name for the pieces of the Earth's surface which are able to move.
Tectonic Plates
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Where tectonic plates meet.
What is a plate boundary?
100
What is Sea-Floor Spreading?
Where new crust is created by a divergent oceanic boundary.
100
The interior of the Earth is layered what are these layers created by?
Density
100
What is the boundary between the crust and the mantle called?
What is the MOHO
200
What is the name of the process in which the surface of the Earth moves.
Plate Tectonics
200
What is the result of a continental-continental convergent boundary?
High Mountains
200
What land form does sea-floor spreading create?
Mid-Ocean Ridges
200
Is the mantle solid, liquid, or a mixture of solids and liquids?
Solid
200
What is better Hamburgers or hotdogs?
Hamburgers no question
300
What is the driving force of Plate Tectonics
Convection Currents in the Earth's Mantle
300
What is the result of a oceanic-oceanic divergent boundary?
Sea-Floor spreading and mid-ocean ridges
300
What is evidence do we have to support sea-floor spreading?
Younger rocks are found closer to the plate boundary older rocks are further from it.
300
What is it called when the Earth's plates suddenly move?
Earthquake
300
Which is more dense basalt or granite?
What is basalt
400
What is the name of the super continent which included all of the continents as one big continent.
Pangea
400
What is the result of a continental-oceanic boundary.
Volcanoes, trench, earthquakes, subduction
400
What type of rock is created by sea-floor spreading?
basalt, extrusive igneous rock
400
What is the difference between oceanic crust and continental crust?
Oceanic crust is more dense and thinner
400
What type of rock is this blue rock in my hand?
What is flourite
500
Name 3 pieces of evidence that support the theory of plate tectonics.
Fossil correlation from one continent to another The continents fit together like a puzzle Matching rock layers along continents as well as landforms
500
What is the type of plate boundary found off the coast of Washington state also what are the features we can observe of this boundary?
Continental-oceanic Volcanoes-Mt. Rainer, St. Helens, Adams, The Cascades
500
What is the consequence of sea-floor spreading on the continents?
It pushes the oceanic plates under the continents creating subduction zones.
500
Where does the energy come from to create the convection currents in the mantle?
The core
500
What is the square root of 144.
12
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