Not Your Mother's Plates

Continental volcanic arcs are associated with what type of plate boundary?

Evidence about ancient climates indicates that ____.

According to the theory of plate tectonics, ____.

An example of a divergent plate boundary on continental lithosphere would be ____.

New ocean crust is formed at ____.

The main source of downward convection flow in the mantle is called ____.

A tectonic plate consists of ____.

What hypothesis states that the continents were once joined to form a single supercontinent?

Oceanic lithosphere is destroyed at ____.

Which of the following does NOT occur at a subduction zone?

If an ocean trench is located beside a continent, active volcanoes would likely be found ____.

Which of the following statements correctly describes the asthenosphere?

plate boundary where two plates grind past each other w/o destroying or producing lithosphere.

The thermal convection that drives plate motion is caused by ____.

In the plate tectonics theory, the lithosphere is divided into ____.

In the plate tectonic theory, a plate can be made up of ____.

Which one of the following has NOT been proposed as a mechanism of plate motion?

How does the age of seafloor sediments change with increasing distance from the ocean ridge?

The lithospheric plates move an average of ____.

Magnetic reversals ____.

One kind of evidence that supports Wegener’s hypothesis is that ____.

Volcanic island arcs are associated with what type of plate boundary?

Which of the following is a geographic example of a transform fault boundary?

Which of the following was NOT used in support of the continental drift hypothesis?

A divergent boundary at two oceanic plates can result in a ____.