Identify the plate labeled C
What is the Pacific Plate?
Large pieces of the Lithosphere that move around on top of the Asthenosphere are called this.
What are Tectonic Plates?
This catastrophic event can happen due to friction along a Transform boundary
What is an Earthquake?
A region of the Earth's crust where tectonic plates meet and the old dense crust is sucked under the new less dense crust.
What is the Subduction Zone?
The tectonic plate that is covered completely with water and does not have a major land mass.
What is the Pacific Plate?
Identify the Plate Labeled G
What is the Antarctic Plate?
The type of plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
What are divergent plates?
Continental-Continental plate collisions produce this.
What are Tall Mountain Ranges?
The amount of matter in a given space or volume; oceanic crust is thinner but has more matter than continental crust.
What is Density of Plates?
The Ocean that contains the Ring of Fire
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Identify the Plated labeled D.
What is the South American Plate?
The type of plate boundary where two land based plates come together.
What is a Continental-Continental Convergent Boundary?
These are formed when two tectonic plates move together forming folds in the land over long periods of time.
What are Continental Mountain Ranges?
These are formed from new crustal material at diverging oceanic plate boundaries.
What are spreading ridges?
The most likely result of one tectonic plate being forced under another tectonic plate.
What is an Earthquake?
Identify the plate labeled B.
What is the Eurasian plate?
The type of plate boundary where two plates rub side by side against each other.
What is a transform boundary?
The event in which molten rock spews out from the mantle to the surface of Earth as ash, lava, and gases
What is a volcanic eruption?
The place where two different plates have contact
What is a plate boundary?
The name of this Super Continent.
What is Pangae?
Identify the plate labeled F.
What is the Indo-Australian Plate?
When a land plate and an ocean plate come together
What is a continental-oceanic convergent boundary?
The horseshoe-like shaped area that contains approximately 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire.
A depression of Earth's surface in which an ocean lies.
What is an Ocean Basin?
The reason why Earth's Geography has changed.
What is tectonic movement?