Plate Tectonics & Ocean Floor: ESH

Seafloor spreading occurs because of convection in which layer?

Which statement describes an active continental margin

Plates that collide and force plates up form ______ boundaries.

What was the name of Alfred Wegener's hypothesis?

Volcanoes are found at _______

When two continents converge, ________.

Which is an example of an active, continent-continent collision?

Plates that pull away from one another = _____ boundaries

The age of the oceanic crust proves that at the plate boundary the plates move

Which image best represents an active continental margin ?

Alfred Wegener believed all the continents were once joined in a super continent called __

Which of the following pieces of data supports the idea that a plate is subducting below another?

Which of the following pieces of data supports the idea that plate boundaries would be moving apart?

Which was NOT a clue Wegener used to support his hypothesis?

Active or passive margin?

Where one oceanic plate slide beneath another plate at a subduction zone, what can occur?

"Pull-apart" rift zones where plates move apart are generally associated with which plate boundary?

Plates sliding past one another = ________ boundary

Tracking major quakes and volcanoes, we can map The________ _______ of ______

Bathymetry is best defined as

Active or passive continental margin?

Deep ocean trenches are formed at _________