Divergent
Convergent
Transformers
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100
This word means "to move apart."
What is Diverge?
100
The definition of converge.
What is to move together?
100
This is how plates move along a transform boundary.
What is past each other?
100
This deepest layer of the earth is made of solid iron and nickel.
What is the Inner Core?
100
Deep earthquakes and violent volcanic eruptions happen at this type of boundary.
What is a convergent (subduction) boundary?
200
This type of volcanic eruption happens at divergent plate boundaries.
What is a gentle eruption?
200
The islands in the photo were formed where this plate is subducting the North American plate.
What is the Pacific Plate?
200
This leader of the Autobots is in constant battle with the Decepticons.
Who is Optimus Prime?
200
This layer is rocky and made of plates that move around.
What is the crust?
200
Earthquakes happen along this type of boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
300
This famous area in Africa is covered in volcanoes. It may eventually tear Africa apart.
What is the East African Rift Valley?
300
These landforms are formed where two continental plates collide.
What are folded mountains?
300
These seismic events take place along transform boundaries.
What are earthquakes?
300
This layer forms the bottom of the atmosphere. It contains weather and animals.
What is the troposphere?
300
Huge folded mountains (like the Himalayas and Appalachians) form along this type of boundary.
What is a continental/continental convergent boundary?
400
This ocean between the Americas and the Old World is getting wider every year.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
This chain of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean shares its name with a Johnny Cash song.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
This U.S. state is known for having a lot of earthquakes. It is along a transform boundary.
What is California?
400
This layer has magma undergoing convection that powers the moving of the plates.
What is the mantle?
400
Mid-oceanic ridges and new land forms at the bottom of the ocean at this type of boundary.
What is a divergent (oceanic-oceanic) boundary?
500
This longest river in the United States is possibly meandering inside of a failed rift.
What is the Mississippi?
500
This type of boundary is formed where an oceanic plate is pushed under another tectonic plate.
What is a subduction zone?
500
This crack in the earth's crust is located in California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
500
This cake has root vegetables as a key ingredient.
What is carrot cake?
500
New land and gentle eruptions happen along this boundary types.
What is a divergent (continental-continental) boundary?