Chapter 4 Plate Tectonics

Active volcanoes are most likely to form at ____.

The mountain ranges formed by divergent plates spreading

The cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking in the Mantle is a

Happens when two plate seperate

The ____ is (are) anexample of a transform boundary

The rigid plates composed of the crust and part of the upper mantle are called the ...

Happens when two plate collide

New oceanic crust forms at a mid ocean ridge as old oceanic crust moves away

What are formed when two continental plates collide.

Happens when two plates slide past one another

This is a portion of land that lies beneath ocean waters.

The outermost layer of Earth's surface.

The hypothesis that continents are in constant motion

The ancient super continent composed of land that forms todays continents

One of the six or seven great divisions of land on the globe.

The theory that earth's surface is made of rock plate that move