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TheRestlessEarth

Terms from Chapter 16

QuestionAnswer
used to measure the movement of tectonic plates global positioning system
hardens to form new rock at mid-ocean ridges magma
stress that squeezes a rock layer compression
stress that stretches a rock layer tension
stress that causes rock layers to slide past one another shear
big pieces of Earth's lithosphere tectonic plates
the raising of a rock layer uplift
the sinking of a rock layer subsidence
the large super-continent Pangaea
when Earth's magnetic poles change magnetic reversal
underwater mountain chains running through the oceans mid-ocean ridges
boundary where two plates collide convergent boundary
boundary where two plates move away from each other divergent boundary
fault that forms as a result of tension normal fault
fault that forms as a result of compression reverse fault
fault that forms as a result of shear strike-slip fault
the area where two tectonic plates meet boundary
bending of rock folding
deep cracks that form between two plates that pull away from each other rift zone
scientist who proposed the idea of a super-continent and continental drift Alfred Wegener
the process by which the shape of a rock changes because of stress deformation
the crust and upper mantle of the Earth lithosphere
when one plate moves under another subduction
folded mountains form with this type of stress compression
the three types of folds anticline, syncline, monocline
type of boundary where volcanic mountains form convergent
the plastic-like layer on which the plates move asthenosphere
direction that the hanging wall moves in a normal fault down
direction that the hanging wall moves in a reverse fault up
breaking of rock layer faulting
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