Chapter 10 Vocabulary
10.1 & 10.2 Vocabulary pg. 239-254
- Alfred Wegener
- continental drift
- supercontinent
- mid-ocean ridges
- Harry Hess
- rift
- Robert Dietz
- Sea-floor spreading
- Paleomagnetism
- Normal polarity
- Reversed polarity
- Geomagnetic time scale
- Plate tectonics
- Lithosphere
- Asthenosphere
- Oceanic crust
- Continental crust
- Earthquakes
- Pacific Ring of Fire
- Divergent boundary
- Convergent boundary
- Subducts
- Subduction zone
- Island arc
- Transform boundary
- Convection
- Convection cell
- Ridge push
- Slab pull