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Grier EOG Review 16
Chapter 16 Review
Question | Answer |
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proposed the idea of continental drift | Alfred Wegner |
underwater mountain chain | mid ocean ridge |
"one land" | Pangaea |
process that form new oceanic floor | sea floor spreading |
hypothesis that explained movement of continents | continental drift |
used to measure tectonic plate movement | GPS |
boundary formed when two tectonic plates collide | convergent |
boundary formed when two tectonic plates separate | divergent |
boundary formed between plates sliding past each other | transform |
movement of large pieces of earth's crust | plate tectonics |
stress caused by forces squeezing an object | compression |
stress caused by forces stretching an object | tension |
bending of rock layers | folding |
convergent boundary that occurs when one plate moves under another | subduction zone |
break of a body of rock along which one block slides past another | fault |
process if changing the shape of a rock | deformation |
rising of regions of the earth | uplift |
area that forms between plates that are separating | rift valley |
process in which hot molten rock rises and cooler rock sinks | convection |
the sinking of regions of the earth | subsidence |