What is the process of wearing away or moving weathered material called?
Erosion
What happens when a continental plate crashes into an ocean plate?
The ocean plate slides under the continental plate and forms molten rock that can lead to volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is the name given to a plate that does NOT have a land mass on it?
Ocean Plate
What is an example of the high mountains that might be formed when two Continental Plates crash into each other?
Himalayas
Why did geographers start to come up with the idea that there was one large land mass that has moved away to form the continents as we know them?
Some of the continents appear to "fit together"
What is produced when two Continental Plates crash into each other?
high mountain ranges
What is the process of breaking surface rock into boulders, gravel, sand, and soil called?
Weathering
What is the name given to a plate that has a landmass on it?
Continental Plate
What happens when two continental plates slide against each other?
This creates faults, or cracks in the earth’s crust
What is the theory that says that the crust consists of huge slabs of rock, that move. The slabs float on top of liquid rock just below the earth’s crust. They move—but often in different directions.
