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Plate Tectonics 1
Plate Tectonics 2
Deformation of the crust 1
Deformation of the Crust 2
LIS
100
the hypothesis that a single large landmass broke up into smaller landmasses to form the continents, which then drifted to their present locations
continental drift
100
undersea mountain ranges through the center of which run steep narrow valleys
mid ocean ridges
100
bending, tilting, and breaking of the earth's crust.
deformation
100
As a mountain becomes smaller and lighter, the area may rise by isostatic adjustment in a process called...
uplift
100
A Koala Bear
Cecilia
200
the study of magnetic properties of rocks
paleomagnetism
200
One type of plate boundaries which tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
divergent boundary
200
A type of stress that pulls a body apart
tension
200
The force per unit area that chagnes the shape and volume of rock is...
stress
200
cucumber head
William
300
short segments of a mid-ocean ridge are connected by transform boundaries called....
fracture zones
300
As the cooling rock slides down the slope of the ridge, it exerts force on the rest of the plate
ridge push
300
Folds in which both limbs remain horizontal are called...
monoclines
300
A fault in which the rock on either side of the fault plane moves horizontally in nearly opposite direction is called...
strike-slip fault
300
very very slow
Hasa
400
New ocean floor is constantly being produced through the process known as...
sea-floor spreading
400
convection occurs because heated material becomes a. less dense and rises b. denser and rises c. denser and sinks d. less dense and sinks
a
400
The largest mountain systems are part of still larger systems called...
belts
400
When a fault is not vertical, the rock above the fault plane makes up the...
hanging wall
400
Night Club DJ
June
500
The region along tectonic plate boundaries where one plate moves beneath another is called a...
subduction zone
500
another name for Pangaea
Supercontinent
500
The outermost layers of the fold have the youngest rock, and its fold may be arch shaped.
anticline
500
The two major mountain belts on Earth are....
circum-pacific belt, and the eurasian-melanesian belt.
500
A teacher
Mr. Samuel Kwak