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Chapter 10 Test Review
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The _________________ __________ is a process describing how supercontinents
formed and broke apart in the past. The splitting of Pangaea into two continents is a part
of this cycle.
The idea of sea-floor spreading provides the evidence which supports Wegener’s
hypotheses of ________________ __________________.
Pangaea was surrounded by a large ocean called _________________________.
The __________________ _____________ theory states that the lithosphere is broken
into plates made up of both continental and oceanic crust.
A collision at a convergent boundary formed the _____________ ________________.
During ____________________ a terrane becomes part of a continent.
The San Andreas Fault in California is and example of a _____________ ___________.
__________ ____________ is a theory explaining why and how continents move.
Based on Wegener’s hypothesis, 250 million years ago the _____________________
began breaking into smaller _______________________.
Past movements of tectonic plates have resulted in _____________ ________________.
Two plates slide past each other horizontally at a ______________ ________________.
The most conclusive proof for continental drift was provided by the evidence of
______________ ________________.
Deep-ocean trenches form at _______________ ________________.
Tectonic plates are blocks of __________________________.
A _________ ___________ is found at the center of a mid-ocean ridge.
A ______________ _____________ is a boundary at which two plates move away from
each other.
The study of the alignment of magnetic minerals in rock is ________________________.
The thin outer shell of Earth broken into several blocks is the ______________________.
The boundary where two plates slide past one another horizontally is the _____________
__________________.
The ____________________ is the layer of plastic rock just below the lithosphere.
The boundary that forms where two plates collide: ____________ _________________.
________________ ______________ is the hypothesis explaining how continents have
moved to their present positions.
The forming of cracks in a weakened continental or oceanic crust is ________________.
A ________________________ is a piece of lithosphere with a unique geologic history.
New sea floor forms as magma rises through a rift in _______________ _____________.
Most scientists believe that plates move due to ________________ in the atmosphere, or
the transfer of heat energy through heated, fluid material.
Convection
Asthenosphere
Rifting
Rift valley
Convergent boundaries
Continental drift
Himalayan Mountains
Continents
transform boundary
terrane
continental drift
divergent boundary
super continent cycle
Panthalassa
accretion
modern climates
sea-floor spreading
convergent boundary
lithosphere
paleomagnetism
modern climates
plate tectonics
supercontinent