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plate tectonics vocabulary
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1
What is the name hypothesis that continents are in constant motion?
wagner
continental drift
sea floor spreading
Pangaea
2
What are the mountain ranges in the middle of the ocean?
normal polarity
plate tectonics
mid ocean ridge
sea floor spreading
3
What is it called when the magnetic field in which magnets orient themselves to point south?
magnetic reversal
normal polarity
reversed polarity
plate tectonics
4
when two plate seperate it is called . . .
transform plate boundary
plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
convergent plate boundary
5
What is the name of the ancient super continent?
North America
Pangaea
Godwanaland
continental drift
6
Name the theory: new oceanic crust forms at a mid ocean ridge as old oceanic crust moves away
continental drift
mid ocean ridge
sea floor spreading
normal polarity
7
when two plate collide it is called . . .
divergent plate boundary
plate tectonics
convergent plate boundary
transform plate boundary
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What is it called if today's magnetic field in which magnets point themselves north?
mid ocean ridge
sea floor spreading
normal polarity
reversed polarity
9
when two plates slide past one another the are called?
plate tectonics
transform plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
convergent plate boundary
10
What is the theory that earth's surface is made of plates that move?
continental drift
plate tectonics
magnetic reversal
divergent plate boundary
11
What causes the formation of mid-ocean ridges?
Divergent boundary of two oceanic plates
Convergent boundary of two continental plates
Convergent boundary of two oceanic plates
Divergent boundary of two continental plates
12
What is the event in which the magnetic field reverses directions?
reversed polarity
magnetic reversal
plate tectonics
normal polarity