Plate Tectonics Review

Continents were once formed a single landmass, broke up and drifted apart is called

Big under water mountain ranges and youngest crust located next to ridge

Two plates move past each other horizontally and example San Andrea Fault

Continents were joined together in a single landmass

2 oceanic lithosphere plates will collide, denser oceanic crust will subduct & form island arc

the oceanic plates will subduct into the asthenosphere forming mountains and volcanoes

Two plates collide or come together is called

movement of Earth’s lithosphere (crust and ocean)

two plates move away from each other and form mid - ocean ridges

Molten material inside of earth rises through cracks in ridge & forms new ocean crust.

continental plates will collide, they buckle & thicken moving upwards causing mountains to form