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04/26/22. TECTONICS PLATE

PERIOD: ______________________
NAME: _______________________
Horizontales
When tectonic plates collide, the lighter___ plate, stays on top.
A continental-continental convergent boundary creates __.
Mid-Ocean Ridges form in the crack in the oceanic crust. Molten __ rise, cools, and forms a new crust.
As tectonic plates move, they can cause ___, earthquakes!
In slab- pull-drive, a cooler denser oceanic lithosphere ___.
___ is the partly molten layer beneath the Earth’s surface.
The top layer of mantle is made of hot __ rock.
Tectonic plate motion is driven by mantle __.
__boundary is when two plates push together.
Patterns of ___, supported the theory Plate Tectonics.
The fit of __continents, supported the Plate Tectonics Theory.
In "Sea Floor Spreading," tectonic plates pull-away from each other at the ___ boundaries
Divergent Boundaries on land cause continents to split __.
A __boundary is when 2 plates move apart.
Verticales
As the sea floor __, so do the tectonic plates and continents!
Youngest rock is found __ to the oceanic ridge.
Wegener's Continental Drift Hypothesis, lacked information about __pull, __push, & mantle convection.
__boundary is when 2 plates scrape by each other.
The Oceanic lithosphere slides __, this is how the ridge push, drives the tectonic plates.
The ___ plate is less dense than the oceanic plate.
Sea Floor Spreading occurs at the ___rift.
Divergent Boundaries on land cause continents to split , creating a __valley.
The Lithosphere and the upper mantle have similar brittle__.
__crust is more dense than the continental crust.
Tectonic plates __ on the top layer of the mantle.