A Zone in the upper mantle the deforms by plastic flow age
  • Which of the following statements apply to the asthenosphere, but not the lithosphere?
  • Which of the following energy sources is thought to drive the lateral motions of Earth's lithospheric plates?
  • Which one of the following is an important fundamental assumption underlying the plate tectonic theory?
  • All of the following are evidence supporting the theory of plate tectonics except for ________.
Hot spot
  • northward movement of India into Eurasia
  • Pull-apart rift zones are generally associated with __________ plate boundary.
  • Today, ________ is in about the same geographic position as during late Paleozoic time.
  • A very long lived magma source located deep in the mantle is called ___________
continental rift along which parts of the African continent are beginning to slowly separate
  • The Aleutian Islands occur at a ________.
  • The modern-day Red Sea is explained by plate tectonics theory because it is ________.
  • Deep ocean trenches are surficial evidence for ________.
  • The volcanoes and deep valleys of east Africa are related to a ________.
normal and reversed magnetized strips roughly parallel to the ridge
  • ________ was never proposed as evidence supporting the existence of Pangaea.
  • Cooler, older, oceanic lithosphere sink into the mantle at ________.
  • Linear, magnetic patterns associated with mid-ocean ridges are configured as
  • Which of the following statements apply to the asthenosphere, but not the lithosphere?
Antartica
  • ________ was an ancient reptile that lived in South America and Africa during the late Paleozoic.
  • Pull-apart rift zones are generally associated with __________ plate boundary.
  • Today, ________ is in about the same geographic position as during late Paleozoic time.
  • Deep-oceanic trenches are most abundant around the rim of the ________ ocean basin.
Divergent
  • Pull-apart rift zones are generally associated with __________ plate boundary.
  • Today, ________ is in about the same geographic position as during late Paleozoic time.
  • The temperature below which a magnetic material can retain a permanent magnetization is called the ___________.
  • The former, late Paleozoic super continent is known as ________.PangaeaPandomoniaPancakeaPanatopia
a rift zone that may eventually open into a major ocean if Arabia and Africa continue to separate
  • Which of the following statements apply to the asthenosphere, but not the lithosphere?
  • The volcanoes and deep valleys of east Africa are related to a ________.
  • Which one of the following most accurately describes the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands?
  • The modern-day Red Sea is explained by plate tectonics theory because it is ________.
2 centimeters per year
  • Which of the following statements apply to the asthenosphere, but not the lithosphere?
  • The volcanoes and deep valleys of east Africa are related to a ________.
  • A typical rate of seafloor spreading in the Atlantic Ocean is ---
  • A transform plate boundary is characterized by ________.
Pacific
  • Deep ocean trenches are surficial evidence for ________.
  • The ----- is a logical evolutionary analog of the African Rift Valleys ten million years from now.
  • The former, late Paleozoic super continent is known as ________.PangaeaPandomoniaPancakeaPanatopia
  • Deep-oceanic trenches are most abundant around the rim of the ________ ocean basin.
Pangea
  • The former, late Paleozoic super continent is known as ________.PangaeaPandomoniaPancakeaPanatopia
  • Deep-oceanic trenches are most abundant around the rim of the ________ ocean basin.
  • The ----- is a logical evolutionary analog of the African Rift Valleys ten million years from now.
  • The temperature below which a magnetic material can retain a permanent magnetization is called the ___________.
the ocean basins are relatively young; most ocean basin rocks and sediments cretaceous or younger in age.
  • The volcanoes and deep valleys of east Africa are related to a ________.
  • Which one of the following most accurately describes the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands?
  • Early results of the Deep Sea Drilling Project clearly justified the conclusion that ________.
  • Which of the following statements apply to the asthenosphere, but not the lithosphere?
convergent boundary on a volcanic arc above a northward-subducting Pacific plate
  • A transform plate boundary is characterized by ________.
  • Deep ocean trenches are surficial evidence for ________.
  • The Aleutian Islands occur at a ________.
  • The volcanoes and deep valleys of east Africa are related to a ________.
Earth's diameter has been essentially constant over time.
  • Which one of the following is an important fundamental assumption underlying the plate tectonic theory?
  • Which of the following statements apply to the asthenosphere, but not the lithosphere?
  • Which one of the following most accurately describes the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands?
  • Which of the following energy sources is thought to drive the lateral motions of Earth's lithospheric plates?
shield volcanoes fed by a long lived hot spot below the Pacific lithospheric plate
  • Which one of the following most accurately describes the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands?
  • Which of the following energy sources is thought to drive the lateral motions of Earth's lithospheric plates?
  • Which of the following statements apply to the asthenosphere, but not the lithosphere?
  • Which one of the following is an important fundamental assumption underlying the plate tectonic theory?
export of heat from deep in the mantle to the top of the asthenosphere
  • Which of the following energy sources is thought to drive the lateral motions of Earth's lithospheric plates?
  • All of the following are evidence supporting the theory of plate tectonics except for ________.
  • Which of the following statements apply to the asthenosphere, but not the lithosphere?
  • Which one of the following is an important fundamental assumption underlying the plate tectonic theory?
Curie Point
  • Pull-apart rift zones are generally associated with __________ plate boundary.
  • The temperature below which a magnetic material can retain a permanent magnetization is called the ___________.
  • The ----- is a logical evolutionary analog of the African Rift Valleys ten million years from now.
  • The former, late Paleozoic super continent is known as ________.PangaeaPandomoniaPancakeaPanatopia
islands of precambrian rocks along the mid - Atlantic ridge
  • Linear, magnetic patterns associated with mid-ocean ridges are configured as
  • ________ was an ancient reptile that lived in South America and Africa during the late Paleozoic.
  • ________ was never proposed as evidence supporting the existence of Pangaea.
  • Which of the following statements apply to the asthenosphere, but not the lithosphere?
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