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The continental lithosphere, which is more dense
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We add more continental crust over
1 2 Pacific ocean basin also called
time
3 Ocean lithosphere floats lower than.... 4 the lithosphere floats on the
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Ocean lithosphere floats The continental lithosphere, which is more dense
lower than....
We add more continental Continental crust is typically destroyed by erosion, not
crust over time subduction
Tectonic plates are made Lithosphere, which consists of crust and uppermost
of... mantle.
, Slow process of Earths crust rising as the result of the
isostatic rebound
removal of mass from the crust.
The balance between the weight of a mountain range
isostatic equilibrium and the buoyancy provided by the underlying mantle is
termed ____________.
the lithosphere floats on asthenosphere
the
Lithosphere is at ____ with Isostatic equilibrium
the asthenosphere
The presence of volcanic midocean ridges
The matching coastlines
What can the presence of
Volcanic mountain chains around the Pacific Ocean
plate tectonics explain..?
basin
Can explain the concept of contential drift
Getting bigger, it is being consumed/subducted
The ocean is not...
somewhere else
The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a
deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a
convergent plate boundary.
Subduction
When a plate moves under another plate, heats up, and
begins producing magma
Presence of paleozoic aged glacial till deposits found in
Plate tetonics explain
South America, Africa...
Plate tectonics Explain the pacific ocean basin
convection currents in the asthenosphere (upper
Plate tectonics is caused by
mantle)
Pacific ocean basin also Ring of fire also called
called
Divergent
3 major types of tectonic
Convergent
plate boundaries
Transform
(adj.) going in different directions; different from each
Divergent
other; departing from conversation, deviant
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Practice questions for this set
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The continental lithosphere, which is more dense
Choose an answer
We add more continental crust over
1 2 Pacific ocean basin also called
time
3 Ocean lithosphere floats lower than.... 4 the lithosphere floats on the
Don't know?
Terms in this set (45)
Ocean lithosphere floats The continental lithosphere, which is more dense
lower than....
We add more continental Continental crust is typically destroyed by erosion, not
crust over time subduction
Tectonic plates are made Lithosphere, which consists of crust and uppermost
of... mantle.
, Slow process of Earths crust rising as the result of the
isostatic rebound
removal of mass from the crust.
The balance between the weight of a mountain range
isostatic equilibrium and the buoyancy provided by the underlying mantle is
termed ____________.
the lithosphere floats on asthenosphere
the
Lithosphere is at ____ with Isostatic equilibrium
the asthenosphere
The presence of volcanic midocean ridges
The matching coastlines
What can the presence of
Volcanic mountain chains around the Pacific Ocean
plate tectonics explain..?
basin
Can explain the concept of contential drift
Getting bigger, it is being consumed/subducted
The ocean is not...
somewhere else
The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a
deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a
convergent plate boundary.
Subduction
When a plate moves under another plate, heats up, and
begins producing magma
Presence of paleozoic aged glacial till deposits found in
Plate tetonics explain
South America, Africa...
Plate tectonics Explain the pacific ocean basin
convection currents in the asthenosphere (upper
Plate tectonics is caused by
mantle)
Pacific ocean basin also Ring of fire also called
called
Divergent
3 major types of tectonic
Convergent
plate boundaries
Transform
(adj.) going in different directions; different from each
Divergent
other; departing from conversation, deviant
