Structure and Evolution of Ocean Basin

Question 1

Young to mature mountain belts

Motion: Convergent

Answer 1

Suturing Stage

Question 2

Features and Structures of Ocean Basin

Answer 2

-Continental Shelf
- Continental Slope
- Continental Rise
- Abyssal Plain
-Island
-Seamount
-Trench
-Mid-oceanic Ridge

Question 3

Mediterranean Sea

Answer 3

Terminal Stage

Question 4

Explains the process of the opening (beginning) and the closing (end) of an ocean which is driven by Plate Tectonics.

Answer 4

Wilson Cycle

Question 5

Red Sea

Answer 5

Juvenile Stage

Question 6

Islands arcs and trenches around basin edge

Motion: Convergent

Answer 6

Declining Stage

Question 7

Ocean basin with continental margins.

Motion: Divergent

Answer 7

Mature Stage

Question 8

Pacific Ocean

Answer 8

Declining Stage

Question 9

Himalaya Mountains

Answer 9

Suturing Stage

Question 10

Narrow, irregular seas with young mountains

Motion: Convergent

Answer 10

Terminal Stage

Question 11

Ocean basins can be either _______, with a lot of new structures being created and shaped, or they can be ________, where their surface is slow to change and does little more than collect sediment.

Answer 11

active; inactive

Question 12

Atlantic and Artic Ocean

Answer 12

Mature Stage

Question 13

East African Rift Valleys

Answer 13

Embryonic Stage

Question 14

Narrow seas with matching coasts.

Motion: Divergent

Answer 14

Juvenile Stage

Question 15

Wilson Cycle is name after the Canadian Geophysicist _______

Answer 15

J. Tuzo Wilson (1908-1993)

Question 16

Complex system of linear rift valleys on continent.

Motion: Uplift

Answer 16

Embryonic Stage

Question 17

Over a long period of time, as plate tectonics meet and subduction occurs, a vast geologic basin that covers the large area of Earth’s surface is formed called ________

Answer 17

Ocean Basins