Chapter 5: Volcanoes Review #2

If subduction occurs faster than oceanic crust can be created, an ocean will expand.

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Oceanic crust near the mid-ocean ridge is younger than oceanic crust farther away from the ridge.

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Alfred Wegener provided evidence from landforms, fossils, and climate in support of his theory of the shrinking Earth.

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Volcanoes that form along a mid-ocean ridge occur at a(n) diverging plate boundary.

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Along a divergent boundary, two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions.

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The hypothesis of _____________ was that all the continents once were joined as a single supercontinent and have since drifted apart.

The process of ________________ continually adds new crust to the ocean floor along both sides of the mid-ocean ridge.

A string of islands known as a(n) ____________________ can form from the collision of two oceanic plates.

When you touch a hot plate, the transfer of heat from the plate to your hand is called __________________.

When continental plates pull apart at a divergent boundary on land, a(n) _________________ forms.