Plate Tectonics

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

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

The San Andreas Fault is an example of this type of plate boundary:

The transition from land to the deep sea is called:

When geological activity takes place far from the tectonic plate boundary, it is called:

The speed of a tectonic plate is best measured in

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

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

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

Flat areas that may be dotted with volcanic mountains are called:

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

A flat-topped mountain that appears to have been eroded is called:

What is the process that drives the movement of tectonic plates?

Edge of tectonic plate is more dense and sinks, pulling the rest of the plate with it. This is

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

Which of the following is NOT a type of plate motion?

Before Pangaea existed, 2 supercontinents existed. They were called:

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

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of this type of plate boundary:

250 mya, it is believed that all of the continents were together as one large supercontinent. What was it called?

A line of volcanoes that forms on the upper oceanic plate when two oceanic plates collide is called:

This is when the north and south magnetic poles are aligned with the geographic north and south poles.

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

At a convergent boundary, one plate slides below another and is recycled as magma. This zone is called the:

A long, steep, narrow-sided depression is called:

Whose theory was sea-floor spreading?

The Himilayan Mountains were formed at this type of convergent plate boundary:

Most mountain ranges occur at this type of plate boundary

A volcanic mountain range near the coast of the continents is called:

A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and rigid upper part of the mantle is called: