Archive for December, 2010
Plate Techtonics
- Continental drift: continents had move.
- Pangaea: “All lands”
- Panthalassa: “All seas”
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Undersea mountain range with a steep narrow valley running down its center.
- Plate tectonics, “construction” The study of the formation of features in the earths crust.
- Asthenosphere: A layer of plastic rock
- Rift Valley:A portion of the earths crust.
- Subduction Zone: A deep ocean trench generally forms along a subduction zone.
- Transform Boundary: forms where two plates are grinding past each other.
- Terranes: Pieces of lithosphere.
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