Plate Tectonics Vocab Quiz 2

The theory that continents were once connected but have separated or drifted apart.

• Continetal drift

• Plate tectonic theory

• Evolution

• Big Bang

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It consists of the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle divided into plate tectonics.

• Asthenosphere

• Lower mantle

• Lithosphere

• Magnetosphere

Movement of hot rocks up and cooler rocks down forming a cyclical motion.

• Asthenosphere

• Convection current

• Boundary

• Fault

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Boundary shown here.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Rift valley

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Boundary shown here.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Trench

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Boundary shown here.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

• Convection

The term for all continental masses joined together during the early Earth.

• Pangea

• Fossils

• Subduction

• Convection

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Plate tectonics states that Earth's surface is made up of giant, moving slabs called tectonic plates.

• True

• False

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subduction

• The process by which new sea-floor is formed.

• Earth's surface is made up of giant moving tectonic plates.

• A system of ideas that explains many related observations.

• The process which one tectonic plate is pulled beneath another plate.

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Convection Current

• The hypothesis that today's continents were once part of Pangaea

• The process by which new sea floor is formed

• The north and south poles have switched or changed

• Any movement of matter that results from differences in density

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