Boundary where plates move towards each other

Responsible for creating mountain belts and ranges

Responsible for expanding ocean basins and rifting

Boundary where plates slide against each other

Used in a theory regarding the Earth's timeline

is a massive piece of thick and hardened stratified rock that floats above the liquid earth it sits upon.

are responsible for their formation.

It was then widely accepted by the scientific community when the continental drift theory was supported by the evidence of seafloo spreading in the 1950s to 1960s.

are plates that meet at a certain point and collide with one another.

True or false: Trenches are the most common points of divergent plates.

are plates that dirft away from a common point.

are plates that slide past one another, neither creating nor destroying one another.

True or false: The San Andreas Fault is an example of a dextral fault.

The motion can be observed at the left (called a ___) or at the right (called a ___).

fracture that stretches from the boundary

Fracture meeting at certain point

THIS IS the crust that HOIDS the continents. It is less dense than the other type.

Happen below the ocean

Fracture or crack that is being release wides the ocean deep sea vent

Gravitational force of fracture of one's plate

Bending of the rocks or deformation

The Theory states that earth's CRUST IS DIVIDED into several. Plates that Gildes over the mantie, acting as HARD SHell.

It IS DIVIDED INTO TWO DISTINCT SUBSPHERES : LITHOSPHERE & asthenosphere

How did the continent form

Another continent that is being experiment

__ creates tremendous stress near plate boundaries; this stress deforms rocks

A ___ is any feature produced by rock deformation

When deformation is brittle, rocks break, it forming ___

When deformation is ductile, rocks bend without breaking, it forming __

one arching downward is a ___ .

A fold arching upward is an __

The sides of a fold are called the __ .

anticlines do not necessarily form ___ .

__ are most commonly caused by compressive stress.

are created by combinations of tectonic and surface processes

synclines do not form __

Synclines are like __-they are U-shaped folds in which strata dip towards the fold axis and the strata become younger as one moves towards the fold axis. A

A __ resembles an inverted cereal bowl

A circular or elliptical anticlinal structure is called a __

A similarly shaped syncline is called a __ .

A __ is an open, step-like structure in which the layers are all inclined in the same direction on either side of the fold axis.

__ (perfectly shaped) are rare in nature.

is a fracture along which rock on one side moved relative to rock on the other side.

is the distance that rocks on opposite sides of fault have moved

form most often due to compression-forces that push rock together, breaking the rock and creating a fault.

is a special type of reverse fault that is nearly horizontal.

are typically nearly vertical and move rock horizontally past each other on either side of the fault.

__ arise due to shear stress- forces moving past one another

When the side across the fault moves to the right, it is called a __. If the side across the fault moves to the left, it is a __ .

is a fracture in which rocks on either side of the fracture have not moved

__ are important in engineering, mining, and quarrying because they are planes of weakness in otherwise strong rock.

As they mapped the sea floor, oceanographers discovered the largest mountain chain on Earth, now called the ___

Which are the oldest rocks?

Which are the youngest rocks?

proposed an explanation for these odd magnetic patterns on the sea floor

to mapping the topography of the sea floor, oceanographers towed devices called

oceanic crust is composed mostly of __, an igneous rock rich in iron.

refers to the upward and downward flow of fluid material in response to heating and cooling

is the upper portion of a convecting cell and thus glides over the asthenosphere as a result of the convection

contains the brittle materials that make it ngid It is composed of the crust and the upper mantle, whose molten peridotite composition allows it to resist flow.

is the layer that contains all the liquid and semi-liquid rocks, which can be found in the mantie

This is the region on the lithosphere where tectonic plates are moving relative to each other

This is the plate boundary where seafloor expansion occurs.

This is the plate boundary where plates collapse and volcanic arcs are made.

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the denser oceanic plate subducts to the less dense oceanic plate, creating island arcs

the oceanic plate automatically subducts, creating continental volcanic arcs.

the less dense continental plate rises above, the denser continental plate, creating collision mountain beita in the process.

It is any factor that drives tectonic plates to move.

The thermodynamic heating of the liquid rocks in the mantle provides movement to the plates.

This is the tensional force exerted by cold, dense oceanic plates as it subducts into the mantle due to its weight. This works in conjunction with the mantle convection.

Also known as gravitational sliding, it is a proposed driving force that occurs at mid-ocean ridges as the result of the lithosphere sliding down the asthenosphere

This is a theory proposed by John Tuzo Wilson, who tried to correlate plate movement with the Earth's timeline.

Exogenic and endogenic processes weather down mountains, which allows the crust to restart the entire cycle.

As continental plates proceed to collide, crustal roots are formed and build mountains

Fragments carried by the subducting plate accretes and welds materials to the continent

Oceanic crust subducts beneath a continental crust, creating a volcanic mountain belt at at the active margin

As the spreading continues, passive margin cooling occurs and sediments accumulate

New ocean basin and new oceanic crust are created.

Continents split due to rifting.