Plate Tectonics
What is the boundary between two tectonic plates moving moving away from each other creating new ocean crusts on sea floor?
Divergent Boundary
P1
What is the uppermost layer of Earth?
Crust
P3Q2,Q3
What type of Earth crust is less older and less dense ?
Continental Crust
What is the boundary name of two tectonic plates that move toward each other and collide
Convergent Boundary
P2Q2
The ____ of Earth is the thin, outermost layer of Earth that is made up of both oceanic and continental crusts. ____ crust is generally much older than oceanic crust.
1. Crust
2. Continental
P3Q3
Where can the oldest continental rock be found?
In the center of the continent
What natural disaster happens when transform boundaries move ?
Earthquakes
What is the name of the place where two tectonic plates slide past each other
Transform Boundary
P1
What is the highly dense form of rock that lines the bottom of Earth's Largest bodies of water?
The Ocean Floor
P2Q3
What method is used to determine the ages of rocks and other minerals ?
Radiometric Dating
What causes the tectonic plates to move?
Convection in the mantle
P3Q1
What is the concept of plate tectonics?
- Part of Earths Lithosphere
- Moves separately from surrounding areas
- Divergent Boundaries
- Convergent Boundaries
- Transform Boundaries
P2Q1
The ____ is made up of large, interconnected plates that slowly move against one another at the top of the _______ .
1. lithosphere
2. asthenosphere
Q5
How can the different ages of rocks across the world be explained?
Plate tectonics
In the ocean divergent plate boundaries are also known as?
Mid-Ocean Ridges
P1
What is the Theory that Earth exists in layers, and that the top layer moves due to convection currents in the layer underneath.
Plate Tectonics
What area shows the youngest oceanic crust?
Near mid-ocean ridges
The supercontinent discovered by Alfred Wegener
Pangea
What method of measuring numeric age requires you to understand that unstable isotopes are considered radioactive and undergo radioactive decay?
Absolute Dating