Plate Boundary Review

What is the force that moves the continents?

Which of these terms means scratches in rocks caused by glaciers?

How do underwater mountain ranges form?

When an oceanic crust (O.C.) meets a continental crust (C.C.), what occurs?

Animal bones represent what type of evidence that the continents actually moved?

What feature is likely found where the Nazca & South American Plate converge?

Breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other are called?

The large plates move across the surface of the Earth by what process?

What type of boundary is shown?

When two plates of oceanic crust collide one plate is subducted beneath the other forming what?

Which of the following scientists put forth the Continental Drift Theory?

When 2 plates collide, what determines which plate comes out on top?

Who created the theory of sea floor spreading?

In the picture of sea-floor spreading - how are the ocean crusts moving

What type of boundary is shown?

When 2 oceanic plate boundaries meet, this crustal feature forms?

What was Pangaea?

Which of the following is NOT a main piece of evidence used to support the CDT?

What process continually adds new material to the ocean floor?

What crustal feature is expected to form when the Indian Plate converges w/the Eurasian Plate?

What type of boundary is shown?

Why was the Continental Drift Theory not well received by other scientists?

How does this picture of landforms & rock layers support the Continental Drift Theory?

The San Andreas Fault in CA is known as an active earthquake area - what type of boundary is it

Who first proposed the theory of continental drift?

Most divergent plates occur along ______.

Explain how this picture supports the Continental Drift Theory.

What occurs when a deep valley is formed along a divergent boundary that develops on land?

Wegener had all of the following evidence EXCEPT?