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Takehome Ch. 13 Science

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Question 1
1.

What was Pangaea?

Question 2
2.

What is an example of how fast plates move?

Question 3
3.

What rises through cracks in the crust to create new seafloor?

Question 4
4.

How old is Pangaea?

Question 5
5.

What is meant by the theory of plate tectonics?

Question 6
6.

If I believe in the theory of continental drift, what do I believe?

Question 7
7.

Where do plates fit together?

Question 8
8.

What are the crust's plates on top of?

Question 9
9.

What are mid-ocean ridges?

Question 10
10.

What is one reason (evidence) we believe the continents used to be all in one super-continent?

Question 11
11.

What was Gondwana?

Question 12
12.

Are only oceans plates?

Question 13
13.

When a continental and an oceanic plate collide, which plate subducts?

Question 14
14.

What is formed on the continent near such a collision?

Question 15
15.

What is seafloor spreading?

Question 16
16.

What is a divergent plate boundary?

Question 17
17.

What is formed at an underwater divergent boundary?

Question 18
18.

What are the 3 ways plates move relative to each other?

Question 19
19.

What are convection currents?

Question 20
20.

What causes plate movement?

Question 21
21.

The edge of a plate is called what?

Question 22
22.

What is a convergent plate boundary?

Question 23
23.

What can form at an underwater convergent boundary?

Question 24
24.

What forms at a continent-continent convergent boundary?

Question 25
25.

What is subduction?

Question 26
26.

What is a transform plate boundary?

Question 27
27.

What is a common effect at transform boundaries?

Question 28
28.

What might the topography be like at a transform boundary?

Question 29
29.

What are the bubbles (circles) of movement inside Earth's mantle called?

Question 30
30.

If similar fossils are found on different continents, now separated by oceans, what can we deduce about those continents?