2 different types of crust
what is continental and oceanic?
seafloor spreading
what is the formation of new crust?
how transform plates move
what is convention currents in mantle?
tectonic plates can either be construtive or destrutive
is a convergent boundary destrutive?
continents drifting apart
what is continental drift?
the defintion of geology
what is the study of forces of earth?
divergent plates move in
what is in different directions?
transform boundaries are found on the sea floor
is lithosphere created or destroy ?
How 1 convergent boundaries move away from from eachother
what is convention currents
what is pangea?
3 different tectonic plates
what is convergent, transform, and divergent
landform made when two oceanic plates move away from eachother
what is midocean ridge?
a single tectonic plate can have multiple types of plate boundaries with the other plate that surround it.
witch fault goes with transform boundaries?
2 convergent boundaries tend to have intense folding
what is folded moutains
discovered the continental drift theory
who is alfred wenger?
athenosphere
what is earth upper mantle
what happens when divergent boundries separate
what is magma rising?
common effects of transform boudaries
what is earthquakes?
tectonic plates can either be construtive or destrutive
mid-ocean ridge definiton
what is an underwater moutain system
covection currents
what is fluid propelled by thermal convection>
what is tensional forces?
transform boundaries are two tectonic plates that collide past each other.
would Ascension be an example of transform boundaries ?
Convergent plates adding material to the earth
What is creating more land?
continental drift
what is graudaul moving of continents