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Criado por Brian Hedspeth
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Questão | Responda |
Wegener proposed this hypothesis | Continental Drift |
Each of the rigid slabs of Earth's lithosphere is called a | Plate |
The mechanism responsible for producing new sea floor | Sea floor spreading |
The type of plate boundary where plates move together | Convergent plate boundary |
Ancient magnetism in rock structures | Paleomagnetism |
This theory states that Earth's crust consists of 7 smaller sections | Plate tectonics |
When rocks exhibit the same magnetism present in the magnetic field | Normal polarity |
The type of plate boundary where plates move apart | Divergent plate boundary |
A rising plume of magma such as the one that created the Hawaiian islands | Hot spot |
The supercontinent that broke into smaller continents | Pangaea |
A region where an oceanic plate descends into the athsenosphere | Subduction zone |
A down faulted valley Created along spreading centers on continents | Rift valley |
Occurs where plates grind past each other | Transform boundary |
The temperature where magnetic minerals lose their magnetism | Curie point |
Rocks that exhibit magnetism that is opposite to the present magnetic field | Reverse polarity |
A chain of small volcanic islands that form when two oceanic plates converge | Island arc |
A deep feature that forms along a subduction zone | Ocean trench |
An elevated portion of the sea floor that forms along divergent plate boundaries | Ocean ridge system |
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