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plate tectonics
boundary
alfred Wegner
Vocab
landforms
100
plate tectonics
What is the earth layer or lithosphere is broken into several large slabes called plates?
100
Convergent boundary
What is a boundary where two plates meet and trenches are formed?
100
pangaea
What did afred wegner find out?
100
Convection current
The cycle of heating, rising,cooling,and sinking is called?
200
earthquakes
What is the effect of a transform boundary?
200
divergent boundary
two plates that diverge from each other?
200
alfred wegner
he had an educated guess on the world?
200
divergent boundary
what boundary is it that plates move apart?
200
volcano
the landform were magma comes out?
300
mid- oceanic ridge
what is the outcome of a transform boundary?
300
Transform boundary
Plates that slide past each other?
300
magnetometer
a sensing device that detects magnetic feilds?
300
ridges
the youngest rocks in the ocean floor are located at the mid-ocean?
400
mountains
What is the effects of a convergent boundary?
400
subduction zone
area were the oceanic plates goes down into the mantle?
400
earthquakes
what happens when plates slide past one another?
400
crust
What is the outer most layer of the earth?
500
athenosphere
plastic like layer of earths surface below the lithosphere?