Chapter 9 Vocabulary
Across
- 1. The process of ______ moves new ocean floor along mid ocean ridges and slowly moves outward along ocean basins
- 6. ____ means all land
- 9. Long steep valleys that form in the deepest part of the ocean are ______
- 14. Arc shaped land chains of volcanic islands are _____ and are made of newly formed land
- 15. Boundaries that move away from each other are called ______ boundaries
- 18. When older parts of the ocean floor return to the mantle ____ occurs as the floor moves through trenches
- 19. _________ is a range of volcanic mountains within a continent produced in part by subduction
- 20. _____ are chains of mountains that extend through oceans
Down
- 2. A long canyon that forms a valley in the center of a mid-ocean ridge
- 3. The upwelling of mantle rock, known as _______, occur in hotspots and take on column shapes
- 4. ______ is the theory that Earth’s plates move slowly driven by the convection currents of the mantle
- 5. The gradual movement of the continents across Earth’s surface is ______ which was hypothesized by Alfred Wegener
- 7. Plate that grind past each other without breaking or building the lithosphere are _______ boundaries
- 8. ______ boundaries form where two tectonic plates move together
- 10. Sound navigation and Ranging stand for _____ and is a system of using sound wave to calculate distance
- 11. Lithosphere that slides into the asthenosphere near mid-ocean ridges is a result of ________ mechanics of plate motion mechanics
- 12. A rock has ______ if it acquires the same type of polarity as the Earth's magnetic field at that time
- 13. Broken pieces of the Earth’s lithosphere are _____
- 16. The continuous circular flow in a fluid, a ______, is due to differences in density in the fluid.
- 17. When dense oceanic lithosphere is pulled into the mantle is the _______ mechanism of plate motion mechanics