Ch 5

Question 0

The supercontinent

Answer 0

Pangea

Question 1

We gents idea that the continents slowly moved over earths surface

Answer 1

Continental drift

Question 2

Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock

Answer 2

Fossil

Question 3

Mountain ranges that formed along the middle of some oceans

Answer 3

Mid ocean ridges

Question 4

A device that uses sound waves to measure the distance to an object

Answer 4

Sonar

Question 5

The process where mid ocean ridges continually add new material to the ocean Floor

Answer 5

Sea floor spreading

Question 6

Deep underwater canyons

Answer 6

Deep ocean trenches

Question 7

The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle again is called

Answer 7

Subduction

Question 8

The many broken peices of the lithosphere

Answer 8

Plates

Question 9

Plates move apart

Answer 9

Divergent boundary

Question 10

Plates come together

Answer 10

Convergent boundary

Question 11

Plates slip past each other

Answer 11

Transform boundary

Question 12

Earths plates and plate motion into a single theory called

Answer 12

Plate techtonics

Question 13

Break in earths crust where rocks have slipped past each other

Answer 13

Faults

Question 14

A deep valley where peices of earths crust diverge on land

Answer 14

Rift Valley