****Restless Earth****

Where are the youngest rocks found on the seafloor?

What forces can cause deformation in Earth's crust?

What type of mountains form when large blocks of Earth's crust to drop down at normal faults?

At what type of faults do plates move sideways past each other?

Who proposed the Theory of Seafloor Spreading?

What is the layer of the mantle below the lithosphere?

What is being formed as two oceanic plates are colliding?

At what type of fault is rock forced up and over rock below?

At what type of fault does rock move down as the plates are pulled apart?

What type of chemical weathering occurs when oxygen combines with chemicals in rocks?

What often results from movement in the plates at a strike-slip fault?

What is the rising of regions of Earth's crust to higher elevations called?

What is being formed as an oceanic plate is forced beneath a continental plate?

Where is old crust destroyed as plates come together?

What theory is that new seafloor is formed as magma rises to the surface as plates move away?

Which of these in NOT a form of mechanical weathering?

What type of plate boundary occurs as plates slide past each other?

What theory suggests the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted away?

What is the sinking of regions of Earth's crust to lower elevations called?

What is another name for Earth's lithosphere?

Wegener believed all the continents were once connected. What did he call the giant landmass?

What causes magma to move plates sideways as hot rock moves to the surface and cool rock sinks?

What force squeezes rocks together?

Who proposed the Theory of Continental Drift?

What is the process in which rocks are broken down into smaller pieces called?

What is the process by which the shape of rock changes due to stress called?

What theory states that Earth's lithosphere is divided into plates moving on the asthenosphere?

What force causes plates to move sideways past each other?

At what type of boundary do plates come together?

Which of these is an example of a divergent boundary?

What Asian country rests on a plate all by itself?