Tectonics A Level Geography Edexcel Pro Final Exam Fully Solved 2024.
Conservative plate boundary - Answer where two tectonic plates slide past each other convergent plate boundary - Answer plates move towards each other and collide Divergent plate boundary - Answer Plates move away from each other Alfred Wegener 1912 - Answer All continents were once joined in a super continent called Pangea. Continental drift caused Pangea to move apart Holmes 1929 - Answer Convection in the mantle is the force behind continental drift oceanographic vessels 1950s - Answer submarines that mapped the topographic features of the ocean basin. Discovered mid-ocean ridges Harry H Hess - Answer sea floor spreading Vine & Mathew - Answer Plates seperate at mid ocean ridges Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - Answer Detected earthquake activity leading to the evidence that EQ's and Volcanoes almost always occur at the edges of tectonic plates vessel Glomar Challenger 1968 - Answer Rocks closer to mid-ocean ridges are younger What is a Volcanic Hotspot? - Answer An area in the mantle from which heat rises as a hot thermal plume from deep in the earth
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