Vocabulary
How does a Convergent plate boundary move?
What is collide or move together?
What does magma do in the process of seafloor spreading?
What is forms new ocean crust?
What is a tectonic plate boundary?
What is the border or the edges where two plates meet?
How do we know the Mid-Ocean Ridge is spreading apart?
What is "the rocks closer to the ridge are younger than the ones farther out?"
What is the Lithosphere
The solid outer part of the earth (crust)
The old crust gets recycled into what?
What is magma
What is a convergent plate boundary?
What is the parts of the plate that collide (come together)
This kind of tectonic plate boundary slides past each other?
What is Transform or Transverse?
Where can you find a Convergent plate boundary?
What is the Himalayan mountains?
Where can you find a Transverse plate boundary?
What is the San Andres Fault in California?
What is the plate boundary that moves away from each other?
What is the diverging plate boundary
How deep is the Mariana Trench? (in miles)
What is 7 miles
How does a Divergent Plate Boundary move?
What is spreading apart?
What 2 things can form at a convergent (Oceanic to Oceanic) plate boundary?
What are a trench and Island arcs?
What 2 things can form at a convergent (Oceanic to Continental) plate boundary?
What is a trench and mountains (volcanoes)?
What percent of the inside of the earth is the mantle
What is 84%
What is the ocean crust
What is the floor of the ocean (basalt)
How much does the seafloor spread a year?
What is 1 to 2 inches a year
What is the biggest tectonic plate?
What is the pacific plate
What kind of rock is formed when magma touches water?
What is igneous rock