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Tectonic Plates
Science chapter 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sea-floor spreading, the sea floor spreads apart along both sides of a mid-ocean ridge where new crust is added. Then what happens? | The result the ocean floor move like conveyor belts. Carrying continents |
| Three types of evidence prove Hess's theory of Sea-floor spreading. | eruptions of molten material, magnetic strips in the rock of the ocean floor, and the ages of rocks. |
| In a process of taking tens of millions of years part of the ocean sinks back into mantle at ? | Deep-ocean trenches |
| MId-ocean Ridges | Underwater valleys where molten material comes up, and fills the valley between ridges. |
| Sonar | A device that bounces off of underwater objects and then records the echoes of these sound waves. |
| Sea-floor Spreading | Continually adds new material to the ocean floor. |
| Deep ocean trenches | Deep ocean, water canyons |
| Subduction | Ocean floor sinks beneath deep ocean trench and back into the mantle at convergent plate boundary |