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What is chemical weathering?
This is the process that occurs when the oceanic plate moves under the continental plate.
What is Subduction?
He is known as the father of plate tectonics.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This is the scientific name for an undersea mountain chain created by seafloor spreading.
What is Midocean Ridge?
This layer includes the crust and upper portion of the mantle.
What is the Lithosphere?
The process or water, wind, or gravity dropping sediment.
What is Deposition?
This boundary type forms volcanoes, mountains, and deep ocean trenches.
What is a Convergent Boundary?
This theory states all the continents used to be together as one supercontinent.
What is Continental Drift?
This is why volcanoes occur at subduction zones.
What is because the oceanic crust is pushed under the continental crust causing the mantle to be overfilled and erupt.
This layer is the ONLY completely liquid layer of the Earth.
What is the Outer Core?
This can occur as a result of ice wedging, abrasion, or plants and animals.
What is Physical Weathering?
This is the only type of crust that will subduct.
What is Oceanic Crust?
This scientist was a naval office that used sonar to map the seafloor.
What is Harry Hess?
This is the name of the supercontinent.
What is Pangea?
This is the layer where convection currents occur.
What is the mantle?
The force that drives erosion and deposition.
What is Gravity?
What is an Earthquake?
This occurs at divergent boundaries under the ocean and is the cause of midocean ridges.
What is Seafloor Spreading?
This occurs in the asthenosphere and is the reason tectonic plates move.
What is convection currents?
This is the area in the mantle where convection currents occur.
What is the Asthenosphere?
The removal of sediment from one place to another.
What is Erosion?
These are the 3 main types of plate boundarie.
What is Convergent, Divergent, and Transform?
Alfred Wegener used these 3 specific pieces of evidence to support his theory of continental drift.
What is Fossils, Landforms, and Ancient Climates?
This is why the Earth is not continuously getting bigger despite seafloor spreading.
What is subduction zones.
These are the 2 types of crust that make up the lithosphere.
What is the continental and oceanic crust?