The Restless Earth
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| According to Wegener, how many landmasses did all continents once form? | One
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| Process of forming new oceanic lithosphere as magma rises to the surface | Sea-floor spreading
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| Areas where sea-floor spreading takes place | Mid-ocean ridges
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| Process that happens when Earth's magnetic poles change place | Magnetic Reversal
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| Theory that explains how continents reached their current locations | Continental Drift
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| Place where tectonic plates touch is known as the | Tectonic Boundary
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| Boundary formed when tectonic plates collide | Convergent Boundary
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| Boundary formed when tectonic plates separate | Divergent Boundary
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| Boundary formed when tectonic plates slide past horizontally. | Transform Boundary
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| When rock is hearted, it becomes less dense and tends to | rise
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| Plate motion due to higher densities | Slab Pull
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| Plate motion due to gravity | Ridge Push
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| Plate motion due to the heating and cooling of rocks | Convection
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| How fast do tectonic plates move? | Centimeters per year
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| When stress squeezed an object it is called | Compression
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| When stress stretches an object it is called | Tension
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| The process by which the shape of a rock changes because of stress | Deformation
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| The bending of rock layers due to stress is known as | Folding
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| A fold where both ends of the rock layer are horizontal | Monocline
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| A downward, troughlike fold in a rock layer | Syncline
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| An upward arching fold in a rock layer | Anticline
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| When tension pulls rocks apart, it creates a | Normal fault
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| When compression pushes rocks together it creates a | Reverse Fault
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| When opposing forces cause rock ot break and move horizontally | Strike-slip fault
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| When tectonic plates collide, folds and faults can become | Mountain ranges
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| What kind of mountain range is formed when rock layers are squeezed and forced upward? | Folded mountains
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| What kind of mountain range is formed when tension causes large blocks of crust to drop down? | Fault-block mountians
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| What kind of mountain is formed when magma rises to the surface and erupts? | Volcanic Mountians
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| The rising of Earth's crust to higher elevations is called | Uplift
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| The sinking of regions of the Earth's crust to lower elevation is called | Subsidence
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| When the Earth's crust slowly springs back to its original elevation, it is called | Rebound
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| What did Wegener call the single large landmass? | Pangaea
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| Underwater mountain chains running through EArth's ocean basins are called | Mid-ocean ridges
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| In a reverse fault, where does the hanging wall move relative to the footwall? | Downward
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| In a normal fault, where does the hanging wall move relative to the footwall? | Upward
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| Used to measure the movement of tectonic plates | Global positioning system
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| Harden to form new rock at mid-ocean ridges | Magma
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| Used as evidence for continental drift | Fossils
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| Used as evidence for sea-floor spreading | Magnetic reversal
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