Plate Tectonics
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- Q 1/13Score 0What is sea-floor spreading?29a deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantlean undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is producedthe process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floorthe preserved remains or traces of living things
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- Q1What is sea-floor spreading?a deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantlean undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is producedthe process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floorthe preserved remains or traces of living things30s
- Q2What is continental drift?a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another platethe slow movement of the continents over Earth's surface caused by forces inside the earthbroken pieces of the lithosphere that move, float and sometimes fracture and cause changes in the Earth's surfacethe theory that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle30s
- Q3What is a convergent boundary?a plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directionsa plate boundary where two plates move toward each othera plate boundary where two plates move away from each othera break in the Earth's crust where masses of rock slip past each other30s
- Q4What is a fossil?the preserved remains or traces of living thingsimages of leaf plates from ancient timesthe skin of lizards from past yearspictures of dinosaurs that lived long ago30s
- Q5What is a mid-ocean ridge?a deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantlea deep valley that forms where two plates move aparta plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directionsan undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced30s
- Q6What is a fault?the preserved remains or traces of living thingsa break in the Earth's crust where masses of rock slip past each othera plate boundary where two plates move toward each othera plate boundary where two plate move away from each other30s
- Q7What is a rift valley?a deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantlea deep valley that forms where two plates move aparta break in the Earth's crust where masses of rock slip past each otheran undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced30s
- Q8What is subduction?a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another platean undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is producedthe slow movement of the continents over Earth's surface caused by forces inside the Eartha deep valley that forms where two plate move apart30s
- Q9What is a divergent boundary?a plate boundary where two plates move away from each othera break in the Earth's crust where masses of rock slip past each othera plate boundary where two plates move toward each othera plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions30s
- Q10What is plate tectonics?broken pieces of the lithosphere that move, float, and sometimes fracture and cause changes in the Earth's surfacea geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another platethe theory that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantlethe slow movement of the continents over Earth's surface caused by forces inside the Earth30s
- Q11What are tectonic plates?broken pieces of the lithosphere that move, float, and sometimes fracture and cause changes in the Earth's surfacea deep valley that forms where two plates move apartthe process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floorthe slow movement of the continents over Earth's surface caused by forces inside the earth30s
- Q12What is a transform boundary?a plate boundary where two plates move toward each othera plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directionsa plate boundary where two plates move away from each othera break in the Earth's crust where masses of rock slip past each other30s
- Q13What is a deep-ocean trench?a deep valley that forms where two plates move aparta deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantlean undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is producedthe preserved remains or traces of living things30s
