Earth Science - Plate Tectonics

Two oceanic slabs converge and one descends beneath the other forming volcanoes on the ocean floor.

Type of convergent plate boundaries where denser oceanic slab sinks into the aesthenosphere forming continental vol arcs

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding seafloor spreading at a mid-ocean ridge?

What was the objection that critics had about Wegener's Continental Drift Theory?

The lithosphere consists of 7 major plates that move and interact in various ways. Which of the ff is not a major plate?

Convection current tells that the cooler mat. ____ to Earth's core, while hotter material ___ to replace the cooler mat.

This is when rocks show the opposite magnetism as the present magnetic field of the Earth.

Type of convergent boundaries where two continents collide forming mountain ranges.

Which evidence supports the continental drift theory?

What theory explains the formation of Earth's crust and its movement?

What is being formed when an oceanic plate subducts to a continental plate?

What is a deep crack that runs through the center of a mid-ocean ridge?

These types of plate boundary are also called destructive boundaries because the plate materials are subducted.

Which part of Earth are the tectonic plates made of?

These are plate boundaries usually found at right angles to the mid-ocean ridges.