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Plate Tectonics Review - Johnson
Plate Tectonics Review - Johnson
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plate tectonics vocabulary
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New oceanic crust forms at a mid ocean ridge as old oceanic crust moves away- ALSO KNOWN AS:
volcanic islands
continental drift
sea floor spreading
normal polarity
2
What are formed when two continental plates collide.
Rift valleys
Mountain ranges
Strike-slip faults
Volcanoes
3
Wegener used all these lines of evidence,
except
Fossil evidence
the fit of the continents
climate change evidence
Humans living on all continents of the earth
4
Plate boundary when two CONTINENTAL plates collide
divergent plate boundary
Convergent-Subduction tectonics
transform plate boundary
convergent plate boundary
5
Plate boundary when two plate seperate
convergent subduction boundary
divergent plate boundary
transform plate boundary
convergent plate boundary
6
The mountain ranges formed by divergent plates spreading
Mid-Ocean Ridge
end of the world
central sea floor
plate tectonics
7
He stated that the Earth appeared as if it was once connected had drifted apart over time.
Appel
Einstein
Darwin
Wegener
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Wegener's Theory of Continental Drift was replaced by the Theory of...
mid-ocean ridges
pangea
crustal forces
plate tectonics
9
Plate boundary when an Oceanic Plate and an Continental Plate Collide
Convergent
Convergent-Subduction
Transform
Divergent
10
The ancient super continent composed of land that forms today's continents
Pangaea
North America
Houston
continental drift
11
The hypothesis that continents are in constant motion
Pangaea
Pandora
sea floor spreading
continental drift
12
Plate boundary when two plates slide past one another
convergent plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
plate tectonics
transform plate boundary
13
The cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking in the Mantle is a
Continental Drift
Convection Current
Rift Valley
Plate Tectonics
14
The theory that earth's surface is made of rock plate that moves
continental drift
divergent plate boundary
plate tectonics
magnetic reversal
15
Active volcanoes are most likely to form at ____.
convergent oceanic–continental boundaries
divergent boundaries
the center of continents
transform boundaries
