Plates and Boundaries
Types of Boundaries
Vocabulary
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100
each of the several rigid pieces of the earth's lithosphere that together make up the earth's surface.
What is a plate
100
When boundaries divide or pull away from each other
What is divergent boundaries
100
A crack in the earths crust
What is a fault
100
Created the theory of continental drift
What is Alfred wegener
200
Edge of a plate
What is a boundary
200
When boundaries crash or come together
What is convergent boundaries
200
A long narrow ditch
What is a trench
200
Theory that the earths crust is broken into pieces
What is the theory of plate tectonics
300
Plate underneath North America
What is the North America plate
300
When boundaries grind pass each other
What is transform boundaries
300
A mountain range under water
What is an oceanic ridge
300
Convection in the lithosphere
What is convection currents
400
Divergent, convergent, and transform
What is the three types of boundaries
400
Happens at a transform boundary
What is an earthquake
400
Cause earthquakes
What is are faults
500
How plates move
What is convection currents
500
Forms at a divergent boundary
What is rift valleys/ mid ocean ridges
500
Form at a convergent boundary
What is Mountain ranges
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