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| Vibration of the Earth produced by the rapid release of energy. |
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| Earth has a ___ structure |
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| What are the earth's layers? |
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| The Lithosphere “___” on the Asthenosphere |
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| The ___ “floats” on the Asthenosphere |
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| The Lithosphere “floats” on the ___ |
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| The continental crust is ___ |
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| The Oceanic Crust is ___. |
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| What are some continental structures? |
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| What are the two types of folds? |
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| A ___ is a crack in the Earth's crust along which movement has occurred. |
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| movement is vertical in this type of fault |
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• normal faults
• reverse faults and thrust faults |
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| what are the types of dip-slip faults? |
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| The movement in this type of fault is horizontal. |
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| The lithosphere is divided into ___ |
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| The lithosphere is divided into plates, about ___ large plates and ___ smaller ones. |
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1. Shape of the coastlines - the jigsaw puzzle fit of Africa and South America.
• Glacial deposits
• Fossil evidence implies once-continuous land connections between now-separated areas
• Rift Valleys of East Africa indicate a continent breaking up. |
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| Name evidence in support of plate tectonics or continental drift. |
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• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform |
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| What are the types of plate boundaries? |
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| At ___, plates move apart and create new lithosphere |
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| At ___, plates collide and one is pulled into the mantle and recycled. |
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| transform-fault boundaries |
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| At ___, plates slide horizontally past each other. |
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| The plates move apart from one another. New crust is generated between the ___ plates. |
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| The plates move toward one another and collide. Crust is destroyed as one plate is pushed beneath another. |
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| The plates slide horizontally past each other. Crust is neither produced nor destroyed. |
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• Plates move apart from one another
• Tensional stress
• Rifting occurs
• Normal faults
• Igneous intrusions, commonly basalt, forming new crust |
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| What are the steps of divergent plate boundaries? |
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• Plates move toward one another
• Compressional stress
• Continental collision
• Subduction |
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| What are the steps of convergent plate boundaries? |
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- continent-continent collision
- ocean-ocean collision |
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| What are the two types of convergent plate boundaries? |
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| transform plate boundaries |
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| In ___, plates slide horizontally past each other. |
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| Plate tectonic model for opening and closing of an ocean basin repeatedly over time. |
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– Convection Cells in the Mantle
– Ridge-Push and Slab-Pull Model
– Thermal Mantle-plumes |
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| What forces drive plate tectonics? |
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| rifting (mid-ocean ridge) |
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| Rising part of convection cell = ___ |
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| subduction (deep sea trench) |
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| Descending part of convection cell = ___ |
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