Plate Boundaries
What type of boundary occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other?
What is a divergent boundary?
What type of rock is formed from molten lava or magma?
What is igneous rock?
Which type of plate boundary commonly creates volcanoes?
What is a convergent boundary?
What rock are mountains made of?
What is an igneous rock?
The Earth's outer layer, made up of tectonic plates, is called what?
What is the lithosphere?
What type of boundary causes earthquakes when two plates slide past each other?
What is a transform boundary?
Fossils are usually found in which type of rock?
What is sedimentary rock?
What is the name for molten rock that erupts from a volcano?
What is lava?
What are underwater volcanoes?
What are seamounts?
What is the name of the supercontinent that existed around 200 million years ago?
What is Pangaea?
At which type of boundary does one plate move under another, often causing volcanoes?
What is a convergent boundary?
What is the name of the supercontinent that existed around 200 million years ago?
What is Pangaea?
Which ocean is surrounded by a large number of volcanoes, known as the "Ring of Fire"?
Who studies mountains?
What are planetary geologist?
What type of plate boundary is responsible for the creation of mid-ocean ridges?
What is a divergent boundary?
What feature forms when two continental plates collide at a convergent boundary?
What are mountain ranges?
Fossils of the same species found on different continents provide evidence of what geological theory?
What is continental drift or plate tectonics?
What is molten rock located beneath Earth's surface?
What is Magma?
What has steep, sloping sides and sharp or slightly rounded ridges and peaks?
Which type of tectonic plate is more dense: oceanic or continental?
What is oceanic?
What is the term for the process where oceanic crust sinks into the mantle at a convergent boundary?
What is subduction?
What is the name of the cycle that describes the transformation of rocks through igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic forms?
What is the rock cycle?
What is an underwater volcano?
What are submarine volcanoes?
What are groups of mountains?
What are ranges?
What process powers the movement of tectonic plates?
What are convection currents in the mantle?