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Chapter 7
Plate Tectonics
Question | Answer |
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All the continents were once part of a supercontinent | Pangea |
Suggests that continents are in constant motion on the surface of Earth | Continental drift |
The mountain ranges in the middle of the ocean | Mid-ocean ridges |
The process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older oceanic crust moves away from the ridge | Seafloor spreading |
A state in which magnetized objects, such as compass needles, will orient themselves to point north | Normal polarity |
The magnetic field reverses direction | Magnetic reversal |
A state in which magnetic magnetized objects would reverse direction orient themselves to point south | Reversed polarity |
States that Earth's surface is made of rigid slabs of rock, or plates, that move with respect to each other | Plates tectonics |
The cold and rigid outermost rock | Lithosphere |
Forms where two plate separate | Divergent plate boundary |
Forms where plates slide past each other | Transform plate boundary |
Forms where two plates collide | Avergent plate boundaries |
The denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate in a process | Subduction |
The circulation of material caused by differences in temperature and density | Convection |
Rising mantle material at mid-ocean ridges creates the potential for plates to move away from the ridge with a force... Ridge push moves lithosphere in opposite directions away from the mid-ocean ridge | Ridge push |
When a slab sinks, it pulls on the rest of the plate with a force | Slab pull |