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Plate tectonics
Question | Answer |
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All the continents were once part of a super continent | Pangaea |
Continents are in consistent motion on the earths surface | Continental Drift |
Mountain ranges in the middle of the Oceans | Mid-Ocean ridges |
Process by which new crust moves away from the ridge | Seafloor spreading |
State in which magnetized objects, such as compass needles, will orient themselves to pint North | Normal polarity |
Occurs in the Magnetic field reverses direction | Magnetic Reversal |
State in which magnetized objects would reverse direction and orient themselves to point South | Reversed polarity |
States that Earth's surface is made of rigid slabs of rock, or plates, that move with respect to each other | Plate Tectonics |
Cold and rigid outermost rock layer | Lithosphere |
Forms where two plates separate | Divergent plate boundary |
Forms where two plates slide past each other | Transform plate boundary |
Form where two plates collide | Divergent plate boundaries |
Denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate in a process | Subduction |
Circulation of material caused by differences in temperature and density | Convection |
Moves the Lithosphere in opposite directions away from the mid-ocean ridge | Ridge push |
As a slab sinks, it pulls on the rest of the plate with a force | Slab pull |