Unit 5 Terminology Review

5. These landforms can form when two plates collide with one another
7. One of the most famous supercontinents
8. Last name of the scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift
9. Plate boundary where plates move towards one another
10. Region where the oceanic plate slides below continental plate
12. region where oceanic crust is being pulled down by gravity
15. This theory states that magma pushes up from the mantle and causes the plates to move apart
17. Plate boundary where the plates move past or against one another
18. Theory that states our lithosphere is broken up into tectonic plates
19. Mountain range that formed when the Eurasian and Indo-Aust. plates met
20. region where magma is rising and pushing plates apart

1. The concept that warmer, less dense matter rises while cooler, more dense matter sinks
2. The theory that the plates once moved and still move today
3. This is a species whose fossils were found on multiple continents
4. A plate boundary where the plates move away from one another
6. Longest mountain chain in the world underwater
11. Visible crack in Earth where two plates meet
13. Last name of scientist who came up with seafloor spreading
14. These occur at a subduction zone. The Mariana version is the most famous one.
16. These occur at a plate boundary when the plates meet and cause shaking to occur.