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plate tectonics
semester exam
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pangaea | all the continents were once part of a supercontinet |
| continental drift | suggested that continents are in contrast motion on the surface of the earth |
| mid ocean ridge | the mountain ranges in the middle of the oceans |
| seafloor spreading | the 0process by which new oceanic crust forms along a a mid ocean ridge and older oceanic crust movies away from it |
| plate tectonics | Earth's surface is made of ridge slabs of rock or plates that move with respect to eachother |
| lithosphere | the cold and rigerd outermost layer |
| divergent plate | forms where two plates seprate |
| transform plate | forms where two plates slide past eachother |
| convergent plate | forms where to plates collide |
| subduction | the denser plate sinks below the buoyant plate in a process |
| conventction | the cirulationof material caused by difference in temp |