Tectonic Plates
The outermost layer of Earth's surface.
What is the lithosphere?
When plates move towards each other, crust or lithosphere is?
What is destroyed?
What determines the type of plate boundary between tectonic plates?
What is plate movement?
What landforms form where two continental plates converge?
What are mountain ranges?
What big fault lays in the state of California?
What is the San Andreas fault?
What is Continental Drift?
What is explains the movement of tectonic plates?
What are the large pieces of slabs that the lithosphere is made of called?
What is Tectonic Plates?
The two types of crusts are?
What is Oceanic and Continental crust?
What type of boundary is known as a destructive plate boundary?
what is Convergent boundary?
Where do ocean ridges typically form in relation to tectonic plate movement?
What is where two oceanic plates spread apart?
What plate is the United States located on?
What is the North American Plate?
Who proposed the Continental Drift Theory?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Uneven heating of the asthenosphere
What is causes the movement of tectonic plates?
Tectonic plates move and slide over the top part of the _____?
What is the mantle or asthenosphere?
What occurs at an oceanic-oceanic convergence boundary?
What are deep trenches?
What geological feature forms when a tectonic plate subducts below another plate?
What is a deep ocean trench?
What plate does Russia sit on top of?
What is the Eurasian Plate?
How were the continents positioned 250 mya?
What is supercontinent, Pangaea?
How are Earthquakes formed?
What is the geological event, when tectonic plates slide past each other?
The lithosphere is used to describe the _____ properties of Earth's interior.
What is the physical?
What geological feature forms at an oceanic-continental convergence boundary?
What are Mountain ranges?
Where do volcanoes most often form in relation to tectonic plate boundaries?
What is at boundaries where plates converge?
What does the Atlantic Ocean rest on?
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
Which of the following continents were part of Gondwana?
What is South America?
How do tectonic plates contribute to the creation of the crust?
What is by moving away from each other?
The crust is used to describe the _______ composition of Earth's interior.
What is chemical?
What type of boundary is characterized by the creation of new crust?
What are Divergent boundaries?
Which landforms are associated with tectonic plate movement and subduction?
What are mountain ranges, ocean ridges, ocean trenches and volcanoes?
What plate is under the Pacific Ocean?
What is the Pacific Plate?
What significant event accompanied the breaking up of Pangaea?
What is volcanic eruptions?