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Earth Science

Plate Tectonics

QuestionAnswer
Convergent where 2 plates are pushing into each other
Divergent where 2 plates are pulling apart from each other
Transform where 2 plates are sliding past each other
When Earth's plates are pulling apart slowly? MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE, EAST AFRICAN RIFT
Where can you go, to see the following? Oceanic crust subducting under Oceanic crust? TONGA, PHILIPPINES, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
Oceanic crust subducting under Continental crust? NAZCA PLATE going under SOUTH AMERICAN PLATE,
Continental crust colliding with Continental crust? INDIA colliding with ASIA.
Where can you, go here in the U.S., to see transform boundary? SAN ANDREAS FAULT, in southern California.
Alfred Wegener The person who thought the continents are drifting on the Earth’s surface making Pangea
Lithosphere Crust + upper rigid part of mantle What the plates are made up of. (Lithosphere Plates)
ASTHENOSPHERE Softer, “plastic-like” zone of the upper mantle. Capable of flow. What the lithospheric plates move around on.
Covergent subduction The oceanic plate slides under the less dense continental plate
Convergent collision boundary when both plates go up making folded mountains
Hot Spots a place where hot mantle material rises to the surface called a “mantle plume”, it can burn through the crust to form volcanoes.
Radioactive Decay radioactive elements release energy in the form of heat
Residual Heat Heat of gravitational energy leftover from Earth’s formation.
Created by: 26ruthie
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