Chapter 13

3. A mountain or hill,having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
4. A bunch of Volcanoes and earthquake spots located along the plate boundary
6. Formed on a divergent plate boundary, a crustal extension, a spreading apart of the surface.
8. Single giant continent.
11. one of the three main types of heat transfer in liquid (magma)
12. Proposed theory by Wegener
14. A long narrow hilltop, mountain range, or watershed.
16. Places where two plates meet one another.
17. About 100km thick. (ch.13 notes)

1. The theory of plate movement.
2. Are bounded on all sides of major faults
5. Ancient continental cores
6. A major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
7. Two (or more) tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide.
9. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
10. Two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
13. Plates moving past each other.
15. The amount of heat from the lithosphere heating the ocean floor.