Earth's Structure Chapter 3

What is Pangea

Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is called a...

A place where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions, is known as a

What is the motion of Earth's Plates like?

Oceanic crust near the mid-ocean ridge is younger than oceanic crust farther away from the ridg

A rift valley forms at a

Mid-ocean ridges form the longest mountain ranges on Earth

What technology did scientists use in the mid-1900s to map the mid-ocean ridge?

Most geologists think that the movement of Earth’s plates is caused by

Along a divergent boundary, two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions.

Which boundaries produce earthquakes?

The lithosphere is broken into sections called ____________________,

The theory that states  pieces of Earth’s lithosphere are in constant, motion is the theory of

process which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench & back into the mantle is 

A collision between two pieces of continental crust at a converging boundary produces a