Chapter 17 Plate Tectonics

Coal beds in Antarctica indicated to Wegener that this continent was 

Weight of subduction plate help pull the trailing lothospere into a subduction zone?

Plates that come together is known as

Oceanic crust is made mostly of

Places where plates slide horizontally past each other

Which is related to the movements of tectonic plates?

Tectonic plates interact at places called plate

Where is the youngest ocean crust found? 

What did Alfred Wegener cite as evidence for continental drift?

Wagener's hypothesis was called 

 North America was once part of a single super continent called Pangaea what theory was this?

a process that occurs at convergent boundaries

A change in Earth's magnetic field is called

Earth's continents were once joined as a single landmass called

The study of Earth's magnetic record

Places where plates move apart 

Compared to ocean crust near deep sea trenches, crust near ocean ridges are 

Which results in the formation of folded mountain ranges like the Himalayan mountains?

Which phenomenon occurs along a transform boundary?

Process that occurs at convergent boundaries

A map line connecting points that have the same age is

Sound waves used to measure water depth

Which of the following is true of Earth's magnetic field?

Wen you warm liquid on the stove, what is the transfer of energy?

Long, narrow, fault-bounded, continental depression