Ocean - plate tectonics

A supercontinent containing all of Earth's land that existed about 225 million years ago.

• Pangea

• Gondwanaland

• Rodinia

• Pannotia

The theory that the continents have not always been in their present locations but have moved there over millions of years

• Continental Drift Theory

• Plate Tectonics

• Alfred Wegener

• Seafloor Spreading

The place where two plates meet.

• plate boundary

• tectonic plate

• asthenosphere

• crust

a tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• strike-slip

boundary between tectonic plates in which the two plates move away from each other, and new crust is created between them

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• strike-slip

Boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other

• transform

• divergent

• convergent

• strike-slip

What ocean is the largest?

• Southern

• Atlantic

• Pacific

What is letter C pointing to? 

• abyssal plain
• seamount
• mid-ocean ridge
• continental shelf

Letter D is pointing to the...

• continental slope
• continental shelf
• trench
• mid-ocean ridge

Which letter is pointing to a trench?

• A
• D
• G
• B