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plate tectonics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| continental drift | wegener hypothesis that earth continents were joined as a single landmass called pangea that brake apart about 200 million year ago and slowly moved to their present positions. |
| convergent boundarie | a place where two of earth tectonic plate are moving toward each other is associated with thenches islands are and folded mountains. |
| divergent boundury | place where two of earth tectinic plate are moving apart is associated with volcanism earthquake and higt heatflow,and is found prime rily an te seafloor |
| tranfor boundary | place where two tentonic plate slide horontally past each another that is charocterizet by lang faolts and shollow earthquakes |
| ridge push | tectonic process assaciated with convection crurrent in earth mantle that accur when the weight of on elevated ridge pushes on to seraterate toward a subduction zone. |
| rift valley | long narrow depression that form when contintel crust beging to separate |