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Grier EOG Review 16
Chapter 16 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| proposed the idea of continental drift | Alfred Wegner |
| underwater mountain chain | mid ocean ridge |
| "one land" | Pangaea |
| process that form new oceanic floor | sea floor spreading |
| hypothesis that explained movement of continents | continental drift |
| used to measure tectonic plate movement | GPS |
| boundary formed when two tectonic plates collide | convergent |
| boundary formed when two tectonic plates separate | divergent |
| boundary formed between plates sliding past each other | transform |
| movement of large pieces of earth's crust | plate tectonics |
| stress caused by forces squeezing an object | compression |
| stress caused by forces stretching an object | tension |
| bending of rock layers | folding |
| convergent boundary that occurs when one plate moves under another | subduction zone |
| break of a body of rock along which one block slides past another | fault |
| process if changing the shape of a rock | deformation |
| rising of regions of the earth | uplift |
| area that forms between plates that are separating | rift valley |
| process in which hot molten rock rises and cooler rock sinks | convection |
| the sinking of regions of the earth | subsidence |