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Plate tech
6th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| seafloor spreading | the theory claiming that the mid-oceanic ridge is a huge crack in the earths crust where hot magma pushes through and speards the ocean floor a part. |
| Pangaea | the giant super-continent where all the world's land masses were once joined |
| subduction | the process of one plate moving under another plate |
| mid-oceanic ridge | a mountain like land form that develops when plates separate and new oceanic lithosphere forms. |
| deep ocean trench | a deep, narrow depression in the seafloor |
| divergent boundary | any boundary where plates move away from each other, and where new crust is being created |
| convergent boundary | boundary where two plates collide |
| transform boundary | boundary where two plates slide in opposite direction beside each other |