Divergent Boundaries
This is the direction plates move at divergent boundaries.
What is away from each other (apart)?
This is the direction plates move at convergent boundaries.
What is toward each other (together)?
This is the color of rock you're likely to find when new crust is created from diverging oceanic plates.
What are dark-colored rocks?
Type of volcano formed when two oceanic plates diverge (move apart).
What are fissure vents?
This is the layer of Earth that tectonic plates sit upon.
What is the mantle?
New oceanic crust is formed when these two types of plates diverge.
What are two oceanic plates?
When a continental plate and oceanic plate converge, this is the plate that is forced down into the mantle.
What is the oceanic plate?
This is the rock color you're likely to find through the cycling of matter when a continental plate and an oceanic plate collide (converge).
What are gray-colored rocks?
Type of volcanoes formed when oceanic plates and continental plates collide (converge).
What are stratovolcanoes?
This is the theory that explains plate interactions.
What is 'plate tectonics'?
This is where you would find the youngest crust when two oceanic plates are diverging.
Where is the area closest to the where the plates are diverging?
This is the plate that cycles matter back into the mantle when a continental plate and an oceanic plate converge.
What is the oceanic plate?
This is the color of rock you're likely to find when two continental plates collide (converge).
What are light-colored rocks?
The geographic feature formed when two oceanic plates diverge (move apart).
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
The cycling of matter includes the melting of continental and/or oceanic plates. This melted material gathers in this area before erupting onto Earth's surface as lava.
What is the magma chamber?
This is where you would find the oldest crust when two oceanic plates are diverging.
Where is the area farthest from where the plates are diverging (OR the areas that the oceanic plates converge with continental plates)
This is the plate that cycles matter back up to the surface through the volcano when a continental plate and an oceanic plate converge.
What is the continental plate?
This is the name of the dark-colored rock created when two oceanic plates diverge.
What is basalt?
Lesson 3 flashback! These form when hot lava flows into water and cools rapidly, creating long tubes and bulbous mounds of rock. They are primarily found in the ocean and made of basaltic rock.
What is pillow lava?
When looking at a global temperature map, these are the areas where volcanoes tend to be found.
What are areas of high thermal energy?
This is the name of the VolcaNOW! volcano that is a fissure vent that formed along a divergent boundary.
What is Hekla?
This is what the the downward movement of the edge of a plate into the mantle beneath another plate at a convergent boundary is called.
What is subduction?
This is the name of the gray-colored rock that is created when a continental plate and an oceanic plate converge.
What is andesite?
Tough one! The term for a type of "valley" formed between highlands or mountain ranges (along mid-ocean ridges) created by diverging oceanic plates
What is a rift valley?
The movement of crustal plates due to the heated liquid mantle creates this predictable formation. This predictable formation is also closely associated with the location of volcanoes, high thermal energy and regions of change.
What is a linear pattern?