Plate Tectonics
Ocean/continent convergent boundary represents which of the following?
Aluetian Islands
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Andes Mountains
Andes Mountains
When two plates move apart
Divergent Boundary
Rain Washing Away Soil
Erosion
What is the point in the middle of the earth which causes earth quakes.
The focus
It cools and hardens.
What plate tectonic does the San Andreas Fault Have?
Strike-Slip
When two plates slide horizontally past each other.
Strike-Slip
A delta forming at the mouth of a river
Deposition
Which type of waves can travel through solids, liquids, and gases?
P-waves
From intensive heat and pressure.
An ocean/ocean convergent boundary represents what?
Aleutian Islands
Type of plate boundaries where trenches might be found.
Convergent boundary
A glacier wearing down layers of rock.
Weathering.
What is the measure of energy released at an earthquake's source?
Magnitude
How does a metamorphic rock turn into a Sedimentary rock?
From undergoing erosion.
Which of the following is a divergent boundary?
Andes Mountains
Himalayan Mountains
Aluetian Islands
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Where new oceanic crust is created.
Divergent boundaries
A glacier melts and leaves sediment behind. What change is this?
Deposition
What kind of volcano is the most dangerous?
Stratovolcano
What was the past super-continent called?
Pangea
The Himalayan Mountains represent this tectonic plate.
Continent/continent convergent boundary.
Where old oceanic crust may be destroyed.
Erosion
What is the location where volcanoes form away form plate boundaries called?
Hot Spot
Who was the continental drift theory proposed by?
Alfred Wegener.