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| Plastic-like later of Earth's surface below the lithosphere |
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| Cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking |
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| The theory that states Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections, which move around on a special layer of mantle |
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| Area where oceanic plate goes down into the mantle |
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| Plate boundary that occurs when two plates slide past one another |
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| Place where two plates move together |
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| Rigid layer of Earth's surface made up of the crust and a part of the upper mantle |
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| Sensing device that detects magnetic fields, helping to confirm seafloor spreading |
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One large landmass hypothesized to have broken apart about 200 million years ago into Continents
The name means "all lands" |
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| Hypothesis that the continents have moved slowly to the current locations |
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| Boundary between two plates that are moving apart |
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| Sections of Earth's crust and upper mantle and they move around on a special layer of mantle |
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| Largest layer of Earth's surface, composed mostly silicon, oxygen, magnesium, and iron |
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| Outermost layer of Earth's surface |
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| Where rocks on opposite sides of a fault move in opposite directions or in the same direction at different rates |
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| Occurs when hot less-dense material below the Earth's crust is forced upward towards the surface |
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| Were formed where the Indo Australian plate collides with the Eurasian plate |
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| Developed the theory for seafloor spreading |
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| What is formed when plates collide with each other? |
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| Mountains, volcanoes, and ocean basins |
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| The place where the youngest rocks in the ocean floor are located |
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| Iron bearing minerals in rocks that show they reversed themselves several times in the past |
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| Evidence of floor spreading |
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| Provided from similar rocks in different locations on the earth |
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| Theory of seafloor spreading |
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| Was proven by age evidence of rocks and magnetic clothes |
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| Evidence for continental drift |
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| Are found in fossil, rock, and climate clues, and with the theory of seafloor spreading |
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| patterns of normal and reverse magnetic poles as recorded in rocks |
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| support the plate tectonic theory because the symmetric pattern show where plates are moving away from each other |
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