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Science chp 6 8th
review for science test 8th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pangaea | "all land" giant landmass |
| Theory of continental drift | continents were once joined together in one landmass and have since drifted apart |
| Alfred Wegener | german scientist who developed theory of continental drift |
| three types of evidence | Fossil-mesosaurus; climate-glossopteris; rock- mountain ranges |
| mid-ocean ridge | where magma rises throught the rift valley |
| rock locations at the mid-ocean ridge | newest rock nearest oldest rock farthest away |
| evidence of seafloor spreading | drilling samples, manetic stripes |
| sonar | devise scientist use to map the ocean floor |
| what drives plate tectonics | convection currents |
| lithosphere | crust and upper mantle, floats on asthenosphere |
| asthenosphere | in mantle where convection currents occur |
| three types of boundaries | divergent(plates move apart) convection(plates move together) transform(plates move past each other) |
| continental/continental | mountain forming |
| continent/oceanic | subduction (sometimes volcanoes) |
| oceanic/oceanic | subduction (older, denser one subducts) |