- _____ plates are located along crests of ocean ridges
- Seismic waves radiate in which direction from the hypocenter?
- Many transform plate boundary events occur in the _____ crust, few occur in the _____ crust.
- When occurring on land, divergent plates can also create a _____ _____
- The ocean crust is relatively _____
- The _____ responds to forces by flowing, and is part of the upper mantle
- A theory proposed in 1915 by Alfred Wegener before the theory of plate tectonics.
- Transform plate boundaries are plates that _____ without production or destruction of the _____
- The _____ plates are in _____ motion with respect to each other
- The lithosphere and _____ are effectively detached because of their differences in _____
- Some earthquakes occur in _____ plate boundaries
- Convergent plates can produce _____ on continent
- Divergent plates can create _____ valleys
- Specific theory that large scale crustal deformation results form movement of lithospheric plates
- The lithosphere is broken into different sections called _____
- The _____ layers respond to forces by bending and breaking/fracturing
- divergent plate boundaries are plates that _____ and have a _____ margin
- The ______ is the soft, weak, warm "plastic" layer below the crust, and part of upper mantle.
- The _____ is a layer of the Earth that is composed of an iron-nickel alloy
- The _____ and the _____ are the layers of the Earth that are mostly made out of silicates