Plate tectonics
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- Q1Proposed the continental drift theory in the 1900sAlfred Wegener30s
- Q2The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates moveAsthenosphere30s
- Q3The portion of the earth's crust that primarily contains granite, is less dense than oceanic crust, and is 20-50 km thickcontinental crust30s
- Q4The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locationsContinental Drift30s
- Q5a current caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid believed to drive plate movement in the mantle of the earthconvection current30s
- Q6The boundary formed by the collision of two platesConvergent Boundary30s
- Q7The thin and solid outermost layer of the Earth above the mantleCrust30s
- Q8The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each otherDivergent Boundary30s
- Q9The solid, outer layer of the Earth that consists of the the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantleLithosphere30s
- Q10The layer of hot, solid material between Earth's crust and core. The thickest layer.mantle30s
- Q11an underwater mountain range made at divergent plate boundariesmid-ocean ridge30s
- Q12thinner, more dense, younger crust making ocean flooroceanic crust30s
- Q13term for the super continent which contained all the plates togetherPangea30s
- Q14The theory that the earth is broken into plates and are in motion due to convection currents in the asthenosphere (upper mantle)Plate Tectonics30s
- Q15long, narrow depression formed at divergent boundariesrift valley30s