Tectonic Plates

When a divergent boundary occurs on land, you get this.

What type of boundary would have plates moving away from one another?

Which type of boundary does subduction occur at?

Breaks in the crust called _________ form where plates slid past each other.

Wegener found _________ of Glossopteris that provided evidence of continental drift.

What is formed when an oceanic and continental plate collide?

Where is the oldest crust found?

As continents move toward the North or South Pole.....

Which type of boundary will produce mountains?

What causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

What type of boundary would have the plates moving toward one another?

Which boundary would have plates moving in opposite directions along side one another?

What type of boundary would most likely produce earthquakes?

Wegener's hypothesis (continental drift) was changed to the _______ of plate tectonics.

Mountain ranges on Africa and ________ line up, showing that they were once connected.

The name of the supercontinent that Wegener thought once existed.

What is formed when 2 continental plates collide?

Which type of boundary will have new crust created at it?

Getting closer to the equator will cause a continent to.......