Plate Movement

The transfer of heat energy by direct contact of particles of matter.

• Example: Metal spoon heating up in a pot of hot soup

• Radiation

• Electromagnetic

• Convection

• Conduction

Transfer of heat by the movement of a heated fluid

• Radiation

• Electromagnetic

• Convection

• Conduction

The transfer of energy through empty space; has no direct contact between heat source and an object.  

• Example: Sunlight warming Earth’s surface

• Radiation

• Electromagnetic

• Convection

• Conduction

The theory that at one time all the earth was one super continent and then moved apart

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Divergent

• Sea floor spreading

Ocean floor moves like a conveyor belt carrying the continents with them

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Divergent

• Sea floor spreading

The theory that the lithosphere is broken into sections

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Divergent

• Sea floor spreading

The theory that the lithosphere is broken into sections

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Divergent

• Sea floor spreading

Ocean floor moves like a conveyor belt carrying the continents with them

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Divergent

• Sea floor spreading

• When rocks slip past each other or move along these boundaries,________, or breaks in the Earth’s crust, occur. 

• Divergent boundaries

• faults

• plate boundaries

• rift valley

Who invented the theory of sea floor spreading

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• J. Tuzo Wilson