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chapter 7 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Pangaea | Is all the continents once part of a super continent. |
Continental drift | Which suggested that continents are in constant motion on the surface of earth. |
Mid-ocean ridges | The mountain ranges in the middle of the oceans . |
Seafloor spreading | The process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older oceanic crust moves away from the ridge. |
Normal polarity | A state in which magnetized objects,such as compass needles will orient themselves to point north. |
Magnetic reversal | Occurs and the magnetic field reverses direction. |
Reversed polarity | A state in which magnetized objects would reverse direction and orient themselves to point south. |
Plate tectonics | Earth's surface is made of rigid slabs of rock, or plates, that moves with respect to each other. |
Lithosphere | The cold and rigid outermost rock layer. |
Divergent plate boundary | Forms where two plates separate |
Transform plate boundary | Forms where two plates slide past each other. |
Convergent plate boundaries | Form where two plates collide |
Subduction | The denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate in a process |
Convection | The circulation of material caused by differences in temperature and density. |
Ridge push | Ridge push moves the lithosphere in opposite directions away from the mid-ocean ridge. |
Slab pull | As a slab sinks, it pulls on the rest of the plate with a force |