Plate Tectonics

Question 0

Continental drift

Answer 0

Continents suggested that continents are in constant motion on the surface of earth

Question 1

Pangaea

Answer 1

A super continent with all the continents combined together

Question 2

Alfred wegener

Answer 2

German scientist that proposed theory of continental drift and Pangaea

Question 3

Seafloor spreading

Answer 3

Process that creates new oceanic trust that forms along a mid ocean ridge and oceanic crust move away from the ridge

Question 4

Mid ocean ridge

Answer 4

Mountain ranges in the middle of the oceans

Question 5

Plate tectonics

Answer 5

Earths surface is made of rigid slabs of rock or plates that move with respect to each other

Question 6

Plates

Answer 6

Earths surface is broken up to pieces

Question 7

Lithosphere

Answer 7

The cold and rigid outermost rock later

Question 8

Asthenosphere

Answer 8

Hot silly putty like mantle

Question 9

Plate boundary

Answer 9

Where plates interact and touch

Question 10

Divergent plate boundary

Answer 10

Two plates seperate
Melt
Form volcanoes and earthquakes

Question 11

Convergent plate boundary

Answer 11

O-C (ocean subducts)
C-C (no subduction)
O-O (older plate subducts

Question 12

Rift valley

Answer 12

When crust is pulling apart and breaks apart(hole in between)

Question 13

Subduction

Answer 13

Denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate

Question 14

Transform plate boundary

Answer 14

Forms where 2 plates slide past each other.

No subduction

Question 15

Convection current

Answer 15

Circulation of material cause by differences in temp. And density

Process when hot mantle rises and cold mantle sinks

Question 16

Subduction zone

Answer 16

Area where denser plate descends into earth along a convergent plate boundry