WorksheetsChapter 7 Vocab Review
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 16mins
Continents slowly moved over Earth's surface.
Continental Drift
Pangea
Tectonic Plate Theory
Sea-floor spreading
"___________" is the name given to the single landmass that began to break apart about 300 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents.
Pangea
Tectonic Plate Theory
Continental Drift
Subduction
A ____________ is any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock.
Fossil
Artifact
Antique
Crystals
___________ is an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced.
Mid-ocean ridges
Deep-ocean trenches
Subduction
Seafloor spreading
_____________ is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle.
Subduction
Seafloor spreading
Deep-ocean trenches
Mid-ocean ridges
____________ is a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the layer beneath it, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust.
Fault
Plate
Stress
Plate tectonic
__________ are plates that move apart.
Divergent boundaries
Convergent boundary
Transform plate boundary
Tension
____________ are plates that come together.
Convergent boundary
Divergent boundaries
Transform plate boundary
Compression
__________ are plates that slide past each other.
Transform plate boundary
Convergent boundary
Divergent boundaries
Shearing
____________ plates are in slow, constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.
Plate tectonics
Continental drift
Seafloor spreading
Pangea
_____________ is the transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid (liquids and gases).
Convection
Conservation
Conjunction
Contraction
___________ is the upward movement of warm fluid and the downward movement of cool fluid.
Convection currents
Tidal currents
Air currents
Wave currents
______________ is the same structure as a normal fault, but the blocks move in the reverse direction.
Normal Fault
Strike-slip Fault
Reverse Fault
Fault
______________ is a steep, cone-shaped hill or small mountain made of volcanic ash, cinders, and bombs piled up around a volcano's opening.
Cinder cone
Caldera
Shield volcano
Composite volcano
_________ are tall, cone-shaped mountains in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash.
Cinder cones
Calderas
Shield volcanoes
Composite volcanoes
___________ forms when magma hardens in a volcano's pipe and the surrounding rock later wears away.
Sill
Dike
Volcanic Neck
Batholith
