The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface.

The name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to todays continents.

The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.

An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor Is produced: a divergent plate boundary.

The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor.

A deep valley along the ocean sea floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle.

The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.

A section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust.

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.

A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions.

The theory that pieces of Earths lithosphere are in constant motion driven by convection currents in the mantle.

A break in Earth's crust along which rocks move.

A deep valley that forms where two plates move apart.

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Lesson 1-4

Question	Answer
Continental drift	The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface.
pangaea	The name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to todays continents.
fossil	The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.
mid-ocean ridge	An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor Is produced: a divergent plate boundary.
sea-floor spreading	The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor.
deep ocean trench	A deep valley along the ocean sea floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle.
subduction	The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
plate	A section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust.
divergent boundary	A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
convergent boundary	A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
transform boundary	A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions.
plate tectonics	The theory that pieces of Earths lithosphere are in constant motion driven by convection currents in the mantle.
fault	A break in Earth's crust along which rocks move.
rift valley	A deep valley that forms where two plates move apart.

Created by: Piper J

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