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Blank is a plate tectonic boundary with two plates moving towards each other, usually forming a subduction zone.
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Convergent
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Blank is a plate tectonic boundary with two plates moving away each other.
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Divergent
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Blank is a plate tectonic boundary with two plates slide past one another.
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Transform
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Which is thicker, oceanic or continental crust.
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Continental crust
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Which is more dense, oceanic or continental crust.
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Oceanic crust
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The transition from continental to oceanic crust off shore from charleston at the present time is
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Passive margin
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Which kind of plate tectonic boundary does not form mountain ranges
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Transform
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True or false: the transition fron continental to oceanic crust offshore from oregon to washington at the present time is a passive margin
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False
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Which of the following were lines of evidence to show that tectonic plates have moved
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The shape of continents
terrestrial fossils similar rock layers all of the above |
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Oceanic crust tends to have more blank mineral and rocks
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Mafic
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Continental crust tends to have more blank mineral and rocks
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Felsic
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In a wilson cycle building a supercontinent, the total amount of shallow continental shelf areas for the planet tends to
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Decrease
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True or false: the fossil record is more likely to preserve organisms with hard parts, compared to organisms that have only soft cells or tissues
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True
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True:False The proerozoic has larger and more complicated trace fossiles than the paleozoic
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False
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Rocks from the moon and from meteorites have a blank composition
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Mafic
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