Plate Basics
What are the big pieces of Earth’s outer layer called?
What are tectonic plates?
What happens when plates move apart?
What is new land forms?
What do plates moving apart make?
What is new land?
What happens when plates slide past each other?
What is an earthquake?
Will the continents stay in the same place?
What is no?
What makes the plates move?
What are convection currents?(Heat)
What happens when plates crash into each other?
What is mountains or volcanoes form?
What forms when one plate goes under another?
What is a volcano?
What is a famous place in California where earthquakes happen?
What is the San Andreas Fault?
What will happen to the Earth’s land in the future?
What is new mountains and islands will form?
What is the slow process that moves plates?
What is convection?
What happens when plates slide past each other?
What is an earthquake?
What forms when plates push together?
What is a mountain?
What forms when one plate sinks and melts under another?
Why don’t we feel the plates moving?
What is they move very slowly?
What is inside the Earth that makes plates move?
What is hot rock? (Mantle)
What type of boundary is when plates move apart?
What is a divergent boundary?
What happens when the ocean floor spreads?
What is new ocean floor forms?
What shakes the ground when plates move suddenly?
What is an earthquake?
What do scientists study to know plates are moving?
What is earthquakes, volcanoes, and land changes?
How long does it take for tectonic plates to significantly change the Earth's surface?
What is millions of years?
What kind of plate movement formed the Himalayas?
What is a convergent boundary?
What deep landform forms under the ocean when plates push together?
What is an ocean trench?
What can erupt and send lava when plates move?
What is a volcano?
What is one way Earth will change in the future?
What is new land, mountains, or oceans will change?