1st Weekly Assessment in Science 10

Plates under landmasses are called?

 Harry Hess, together with Robert Dietz, suggested an explanation to the continental drift and it is called?

A type of plate boundary that when two plates are moving toward each other it is called?

It acts against the driving force of tectonic plates.

It occurs between two colliding plates whereby both plates are suck down by convection current.

The immediate concerns about transform fault boundaries are  ___________activities triggered by movements along the fault system.

He proposed a theory that about 200 million years ago, the continents were once one large landmass. 

When plates slide past another frictional force prevents the action of ridge push is called?

The process that allowed the creation of new bodies of water is called?

As an oceanic crust moves away from a divergent boundary, it becomes denser than the newer oceanic crust. 

It is made of a variety of solid rocks like sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous.

Breaks in Earth’s crust where rocks have slipped past each other is called?

As the oceans plates move further and further apart, new ocean floor is continuously added it is called?

It is opposes slab pull force through friction.

When to two plates move away from each other create a gap or rift between them it is called?