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Plate Tectonics Rev.
A review that includes boundaries, sea-floor spreading and continental drift.
Question | Answer |
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What type of boundary pulls apart? | Divergent |
Name one result of tectonic activity. | Mountain building, earthquakes and volcanoes. |
Harry Hess was the first person to find what? | Sea-floor spreading |
True or False:In a Convergent boundary, dense oceanic crust is forced under less dense continental crust. | True |
True or False: Divergent boundaries grind past each other. | False |
True or False: Transform boundaries result in earthquakes. | True |
During continental collision,two continental plates collide creating uplift. Crust is compressed forming what? | Mountains |
Divergent boundaries result in what? | New oceanic crust. |
THESE type of boundaries result in mountains or subduction zones. | Convergent |
What type of movement does transform boundaries create? | Strike/slip or Grind past each other |
Which plate is the Ring of Fire located on? | Juan de Fuca Plate |
Who proposed the Continental Drift Theory? | Alfred Wegener |
What is the process called when material in the Mantel rises upward to the surface at a mid-ocean ridge and crust moves outwards pushing the sea-floor away from the new ridge? | Sea-floor spreading |
Alfred Wegener believed that all continents were once connected as one mass. What is the name of this mass? | Pangaea |
Core samples from oceanic crust showed many what? | Magnetic reversals |
What does the Continental Drift Theory state? | It states that continents moved. |
What are some of the evidence that shows the PANGAEA existed? | Puzzle-like fit of the continents, sea-floor spreading and the Fossil Record. |
What plate is California located on? | The North American Plate. |
Name the plate that Brazil is located on. | The South American Plate. |