Plate Movement
Plate Boundaries
Sea-Floor Spreading
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Tectonic Plates
What is the generic name for the pieces of the Earth's surface which are able to move.
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Where tectonic plates meet.
What is a plate boundary?
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Where new crust is created by a divergent oceanic boundary.
What is Sea-Floor Spreading?
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Density
The interior of the Earth is layered what are these layers created by?
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MOHO
What is the name of the layer between the crust and the mantle?
200
Plate Tectonics
What is the name of the process in which the surface of the Earth moves.
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High Mountains
What is the result of a continental-continental convergent boundary?
200
Mid-Ocean Ridges
What land form does sea-floor spreading create?
200
Solid
Is the mantle solid, liquid, or a mixture of solids and liquids?
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Sun
What is source of most energy on the Earth's surface?
300
Convection Currents in the Earth's Mantle
What is the driving force of Plate Tectonics
300
Sea-Floor spreading and mid-ocean ridges
What is the result of a oceanic-oceanic divergent boundary?
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Younger rocks are found closer to the plate boundary older rocks are further from it.
What is evidence do we have to support sea-floor spreading?
300
Earthquake
What is it called when the Earth's plates suddenly move?
300
Basalt
What is rock is more dense basalt or granite.
400
Pangea
What is the name of the super continent which included all of the continents as one big continent.
400
Volcanoes, trench, earthquakes, subduction
What is the result of a continental-oceanic boundary.
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basalt, extrusive igneous rock
What type of rock is created by sea-floor spreading?
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Oceanic crust is more dense and thinner
What is the difference between oceanic crust and continental crust?
400
Flourite
What is the name of the blue rock in my hand?
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Fossil correlation from one continent to another The continents fit together like a puzzle Matching rock layers along continents as well as landforms
Name 3 pieces of evidence that support the theory of plate tectonics.
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Continental-oceanic Volcanoes-Mt. Rainer, St. Helens, Adams, The Cascades
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?
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It pushes the oceanic plates under the continents creating subduction zones.
What is the consequence of sea-floor spreading on the continents?
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The core
Where does the energy come from to create the convection currents in the mantle?
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What is the square root of 144.
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