The Basics | Crust and Boundaries | More About Boundaries | Geologic Features | Plate Movement, etc. |
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Africa and South America
Alfred Wegener observed that which two continents looked like they fit together?
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Divergent Boundary
At this kind of plate boundary, tectonic plates pull away from each other
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Convergent
At what kind of plate boundary does subduction happen?
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Mid-ocean ridge
When tectonic plates pull apart underwater, this feature is created
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It rises
When liquid or gas is heated, it becomes less dense, and this happens
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The Mantle
What is the layer beneath the crust?
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Convergent Boundary
At this kind of plate boundary, tectonic plates move toward each other
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Divergent
At what kind of plate boundary is new crust created?
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Deep Ocean trench
When an oceanic plate subducts under another oceanic plate, this feature is created.
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Mantle Convection
The flow of material in the Earth's mantle drags tectonic plates around. What is this flow called?
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Pangaea
The name for the super continent when all land was connected
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Oceanic Crust
This kind of crust is dense, and rides low on the mantle
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Transform
What kind of plate boundary experiences earthquakes, but has no specific geologic features?
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Rift Valley
When tectonic plates pull apart on land, this feature is created
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Volcano
What is a common geologic feature found at subduction zones between seafloor plate and continental plate?
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Didn't know how it did it.
Why was the Continental Drift hypothesis of Wegner's not accepted?
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Convergent
This kind of plate boundary caused the Himalayas.
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Deep Sea Trench
What geologic feature will be found on the ocean floor at a subduction zone?
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Iceland
This country sits on top of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
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Mid-ocean Ridges
Where is the newest crust on the Earth found?
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Near the equator or Tropics.
Fossils found in Antarctica shows that it used to be located where?
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Transform Boundary
This kind of tectonic plate boundary runs through southern California
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Mid-atlantic ridge
What did Harry Hess discover?
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The Ring of Fire
The volcanoes that encompass the Pacific Ocean is called ___.
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Seafloor
Before the work of Harry Hess, this was thought to be flat.
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