click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Lesson 7 Chapter 1-3
Vocab | description |
---|---|
Pangaea | All the continents were once part of a super-continent. |
Continental drift | The continents are in constant motion. |
mid-ocean ridges | The mountains ranges in the middle of the ocean |
Seafloor spreading | The process by new oceanic crust forms along mid-ocean ridge and the older crust moves away from the ridge |
Normal polarity | a state in which magnetized object will orient themselves to point North |
Magnetic reversal | the magnetic field reveres direction |
Reversed polarity | a state in which magnetized object will orient themselves to point South.The opposite of Normal polarity |
Plate tectonics | Earth's surface is made of rigid slabs of rock or plates, that move with respect to each other |
lithosphere | the cold and rigid outermost rock layer |
transform plate boundary | where two plates slide past each other |
convergent plate boundary | where plates collide |
subduction | the denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate |
convection | the circulation of material caused by differences in temperature and density |
ridge push | moves the lithosphere in the opposite directions away from the mid-ocean range |
slab pull | as slabs sinks, it pulls on the rest of the plate with a force |
divergent plate boundary | where two plates separate |