Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Quizizz Assignment 24-25

mid-ocean ridge

• A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface
• An underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed
• The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations
• The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface.

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Density

• The name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents
• pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust
• A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move.
• Mass per unit volume

Pangaea

• The name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents
• A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface
• the pulling of a tectonic plate as its edge subducts deep into the mantle
• The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.

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continental drift

• vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake
• The name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents
• The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations
• The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid

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Alfred Wegener

• A German scientist who proposed the theroy of continental drift
• A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust.
• A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other.
• The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations

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Asthenosphere

• The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface.
• The formation of new ocean crust as a result of magma pushing upward and outward from Earth's mantle to the surface.
• The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
• The soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats.

Convection

• A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface
• The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
• when the force of gravity moves a plate downward and away from a ridge
• The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid

convergent plate boundary

• The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface.
• A break in the earth's crust
• A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other.
• An underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed

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divergent plate boundary

• A German scientist who proposed the theroy of continental drift
• A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust.
• vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake
• Boundary between tectonic plates in which the two plates move away from each other

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Lithosphere

• An underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed
• A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust.
• A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface
• The name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents

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