Vocabulary
Rocks
Plate Tectonics
Continental Drift
More and More
100
A boundary where plates grind past each other moving in opposite direction.
What is transform fault boundary.
100
Igneous Rocks can be found around or in these?
Volcanoes
100
Two plates that move apart from each other.
What is a divergent boundary
100
Why was the theory rejected?
Because he could not explain how the continents got to their present location.
100
Sediments are deeply buried under pressure
Compaction
200
What are liquid rocks or minerals INSIDE the Earths called?
When the rock cools down inside the rock its called?
Magma
Intrusive
200
Is the older or younger crust located farthest from the mid ocean ridge?
What is the older crust.
200
What drives the plates to move.
What is convection currents in the mantle.
200
What is the name of the supercontinent about 300 million years ago?
What is Pangaea.
200
Name this Character
Hanna Montana
300
Remains of traces of past life found in crust.
What is a fossil.
300
Process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle is called...
What is subduction
300
What would most likely cause the highest mountains to form?
What is two continental plates colliding.
300
Who was the man responsible for the Theory of Continental Drift?
What is Alfred Wegener
300
Name the 3 types of boundaries.
What is transform fault, convergent, divergent boundaries.
400
A valley that forms where two plates move apart.
What is a rift.
400
What kind of oceanic plate boundary forms island arcs?
Covergent boundary
400
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of this type of boundary.
Divergent Boundary
400
Name this boundary - Also name a location this is occuring. A specific name - not just ocean.
African Rift
Mid ocean ridge
400
Name these two types of plates colliding into each together - and what kind of boundary
Contenital vs Oceanic Covergent boundary
500
A rigid block of crust and upper mantle rock; a piece or section of Earth's crust.
What is a plate
500
Name the steps that form a sedimenatry rock.
( all 5 in order)
Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, Compaction, Cementation
500
Why does oceanic crust sink below the other plate during subduction?
Because it is more dense then continental crust.
500
What does it mean to say that "the Atlantic Ocean is getting wider, pushing North America apart."
The plates are moving away from each other.