APS plate tectonics
Advanced Physical Science grade 9 test on continental drift and plate tectonics
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- Puzzle like fit of continents, same fossils on different continents, matching rock layers
- evidence for continental drift
- divergent
- plates separate
- Himalayas
- example of convergent boundary
- Red Sea and Saudi Arabia
- example of divergent boundary
- Island arcs
- form as a result of ocean ocean convergence
- transform
- slide past each other
- ion
- atoms with the same number of protons, but different numbers of electrons
- San Andreas fault
- example of transform boundary
- shear and strike slip
- other name for transform boundary
- isotope
- atoms with the same number of protons but different number of protons
- Harry Hess
- the scientist who came up with the idea of seafloor spreading
- subduction zone
- sinking area needed for formation of volcano
- Spitzbergen
- cold island with tropical plants
- mid-ocean ridge
- underwater mountain chain
- ocean ocean
- more dense plate slides under other plate,
- Himalayas
- form as a result of continental continental convergence
- continental continental
- no sinking area mountain forms in the middle
- asthenosphere
- bottom layer
- Alfred Wegener
- Who came up with the theory of continental drift
- Pangea
- What was the land mass of all the continents stuck together called?
- convergent
- plates come together
- continental drift
- states that continents moved horizontally to current locations
- lithosphere
- layer above the asthenosphere
- plate tectonics
- continental and oceanic plates move on magma and alter the landscape of earth
- Japan
- example of island arcs
- ocean continent
- more dense ocean plate slides under continent
- volcano
- forms as a result of ocean continent convergence