Unit 7 Investigating Plate Tectonics Review

______________ current in Earth's mantle that transfers heat in Earth's interior and is the driving force for plate tectonics.

• Consumption

• Condition

• Convection

• Convention

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A large section of Earth's oceanic or continental crust and rigid upper mantle that moves around on the asthenosphere

• plate

• mantle

• core

• biosphere

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The theory that Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into plates that float and move around on a plastic like layer of the mantle.

• Tectonic Theory

• Pangaea Theory

• Wegener Theory

• Plate Tectonics

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Plates that slide side by side

• Divergent

• Transform

• Convergent

• Conform

Plates that move apart are known as

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Conform

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Plates that come together or collide are called

• Divergent

• Transform

• Convergent

• Conform

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The portion of Earth's crust that lies beneath ocean waters is known as

• Continental crust

• Oceanic crust

• Tidal crust

• Orbital crust

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Wegener's hypothesis that all continents were once connected in a single large landmass that broke apart about 200 million years ago and drifted slowly to their current positions is known as

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Wegener's Tectonics

• Seafloor spreading

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One of the six or seven great divisions of land on the globe

• continent

• north pole

• equator

• The Grand Canyon

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The shaking of the ground caused by the sudden movement of large blocks of rocks along a fault

• tsunami

• magma

• earthquake

• stress

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