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Plate Tectonics I
Rocks +
Faults
Plate Tectonics II
100
Evidence of plate tectonics
What is a heat map of the ocean, elevation and bathymetry information, age of seafloor, oscillating magnetic anomalies, apparent polar wander, volcanoes and trenches (bathymetry)
100
a naturally occurring, inorganic solid
What is a mineral?
100
A fault in which the hanging wall moves up
What is a reverse fault
100
a type of lithosphere that does not subduct into the mantle
What is oceanic?
200
A type of plate boundary that results in rift valleys
What is a divergent boundary?
200
Large crystals indicate this subtype of rock
What is intrusive igneous rocks
200
The type of plate boundary that produces a normal fault
What is divergent?
200
The oldest type of lithosphere
What is continental lithosphere
300
The location where new oceanic lithosphere is created
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
300
The building blocks of rocks
What are minerals
300
Reverse faults are associate with this type of stain
What is compression?
300
lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core
What are the primary mechanical zones of the earth?
400
The location where old oceanic lithosphere is consumed back into the mantle
What is an oceanic trench
400
Rocks that experience a change in mineral composition or orientation
What are metamorphic rocks?
400
The rock material located above a fault
What is the hanging wall?
400
An underwater volcanic mountain range
What is the mid-ocean ridge
500
Continental crust, oceanic crust, core, and mantle
What are the primary compositional zones of the earth
500
A subtype of rock in which material is cemented together
What is detrital sedimentary?
500
The type of strain experienced at a rift valley
What is tension?
500
The type of plate boundary responsible for creating tall mountains like the Himalayas
What is a convergent boundary?