tectonic plates

Question 1

what occurs at transform boundaries

Answer 1

earthquakes

Question 2

Name the plate boundary that occurs when two plates slide past one another

Answer 2

Transform boundary

Question 3

name the unifying theory that the earths plates are in slow, constant motion driven by convection currents

Answer 3

plate tectonics

Question 4

name the large, rigid sections of the lithosphere that slowly moves onto of the asthenosphere

Answer 4

Plates

Question 5

where do plates meet

Answer 5

at plate boundaries

Question 6

how far may one side the of the sea floor move each year?

Answer 6

between 1cm and 20 cm each year

Question 7

what type of boundary occurs when two plates move APART from one another?

Answer 7

Divergent boundaries

Question 8

what type of boundary occurs when two plates move together?

Answer 8

convergent

Question 9

what is it called when oceanic plate and continental plate collide and the denser the ocean plates forced downward

Answer 9

subduction zone

Question 10

where are the youngest rocks located

Answer 10

at the mid ocean ridge

Question 11

who came up with the idea of continental drift

Answer 11

Alfred wegener

Question 12

name 4 types of evidence to support continental drift.

Answer 12

1. fit together
2. fossil clues
3. climate
4. rock clues

Question 13

what causes continental drift

Answer 13

sea floor spreading

Question 14

name the plastic-like layer of the earths surface below the lithosphere

Answer 14

asthenosphere

Question 15

what type of plate boundary are the Himalayan mountains ?

Answer 15

convergent boundary

Question 16

what is the idea that all of the continents were connected as one large land mass and at some point they separated?

Answer 16

continental drift

Question 17

name the cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking

Answer 17

convection current

Question 18

are ocean floor rocks or continental rocks younger?

Answer 18

ocean floor rocks

Question 19

what was the name for the super continent, meaning all lang?

Answer 19

Pangea

Question 20

what is a fossil?

Answer 20

any trace of an ancient organism preserved in rock

Question 21

what is the outmost layer of the earths surface?

Answer 21

crust

Question 22

name the rigid layer of the earths surface made up of th curst and the upper mantle.

Answer 22

lithosphere