Continents
Who came up with the idea of "Continental Drift?"
Who is Alfred Wegner?
Mountain ranges that run along the middle of ocean floors?
What are Mid-ocean ridges?
When two Continental convergent boundaries collide they form...
What are mountains?
Seafloor spreading and subduction work together like...
What is a giant conveyer belt?
Earth's lithosphere is broken up into what?
What are plates?
What is Pangea/Supercontinent?
The process by which mid-ocean ridges are constantly adding new material to the ocean floor.
What is seafloor spreading?
The older denser plate is pulled down to form a trench
What are oceanic vs oceanic plate boundaries?
The famous transform boundary in California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
Where do tectonic plates meet?
What are plate boundaries?
Any trace of a organism that has been preserved in rock.
What are fossils?
Along a mid-ocean ridges new _______ from inside Earth rises, erupts, cools, and hardens to form a sold stripe of rock.
What is magma?
What do oceanic vs Continental plate boundaries for?
What are volcanoes?
When two plate carrying oceanic crust meet the denser one...
What is sinking
The combined theory of seafloor spreading, plates, and plate motions is a single theory called...
What is the theory of Plate Tectonics?
Fossils of tropical plants were found in the Arctic ocean.
What are past tropical climates?
The stripes pattern that appears on the ocean floor.
What is magnetic orientation?
This happens during a transform plate boundary?
What are Earthquakes?
The process by which denser older crust is pulled beneath the trench and back into the mantle.
What is Convection?
Breaking in earth's crust where rocks have slipped passed each other.
What are faults?
Rock types often fit on one continent fit those of another.
What are mountain ranges?
As magma cools, what happens?
What is destiny?
Rifts are created during this boundary.
What are divergent plate boundaries?
The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle again.
What is subduction?
Earths plates move due to being on top oft this sphere.
What is the asthenosphere?