Duplicate of Plate Tectonics

Which is an example of a location where Continental Oceanic Convergence happens?

Which of the following layers of the earth is liquid?

What is an underwater mountain chain that forms along the seafloor called?

Similar plant and animal fossils are found on different continents. This is evidence for:

When one plate slides below another, it is recycled as magma. What is this location called?

This is the name of the scientist associated with the theory of Continental Drift

The speed of a tectonic plate is best measured in

This is stress that occurs to stretch an object

This is the process that happens at a mid-ocean ridge

This image represents which type of boundary:

The picture represents which type of boundary:

Most of Earth's volcanic mountains are located on the Pacific plate. It is called:

Block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and rigid upper part of the mantle

What did Wegener find in Antarctica that led him to believe that the continent had moved?

This is the process in which hot material rises and cool material sinks to drive plate motion

This is the type of plate motion that causes plates to move toward one another

A break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to one another is called a

If two oceanic plates collide, what determines which one will subduct?

This is the type of plate motion that causes plates to move away from one another

Sea-floor spreading occurs at this type of plate boundary

Hawaii and Yellowstone are great examples of:

Why did nobody believe Alfred Wegener?

Change in Earth's magnetic field causing magnetic north to line up with geographic south

This image represents which type of boundary:

Oceanic plates are made of what?

This is an area of deep cracks that forms at a divergent boundary

According to theory of continental drift, the continents used to be one big landmass called...

The asthenosphere is best described as:

This is the type of plate motion that causes plates to move past one another horizontally

Which of the following is not a piece of evidence that Wegener used?

This is the force that acts to squeeze an object

Most mountain ranges occur at this type of plate boundary

What would happen if two continents collided?

Where are most of Earth's volcanic mountains located?

A rock's change in shape due to stress is called

The outermost physical layer of the earth is known as:

This is the location in the Earth where heat originates from to drive convection

The picture best represents which boundary?

What first happened that led to the conclusion that Alfred Wegener was probably right?