Chapter 7 Plate Tectonics

Which boundary consists of plates moving away from each other?

What is under Hawaii?

Which drilling ship was created to get new information of the sea floor 

Where do plates slide horizontally past one another ?

How did Wegener explain Pangea's movement 

Where do volcanic arcs develop?

When did Pangea begin to break apart?

Chains of volcanic structures are called?

Which doesn't support the theory of plate tectonics?

how many chrons are there?

What is the average length per year that lithospheric plates move?

Which sphere is broken into plates? 

A deep down faulted structure in the Ocean is called?

How old was the sediment found in ocean basins?

Which is not a type of boundary?

What type of deposits occurred at the end of Paleozoic era? Did you read?

What is another name for convergent boundary?

When is the next supercontinent thought to occur?

What tool is used for researching the sea floor with the use of magnets ?

Earths magnet field has reversed, and we know this because we studied..

Which plate boundary has plates that move away from each other?

As oceanic lithosphere ages, what happens to it?

What is it called when slabs of cold, oceanic lithosphere go to great depths & stir the mantle?

Suiko, Midway, and Molokai are all apart of what chain?

Who suggested Pangea?

What are the sections of the magnetic time scale called?

Cold, dense oceanic lithosphere being subducted and pulling a trail of lithosphere is called a?

There was a relationship of fossils/rocks between south america and what continent?

The movement of Earths plates and mantle is driven by what?

Where are lithospheric plates the thinnest?