Identify the Plate Boundary
What is the plate boundary where two plates slide with each other?
Transform Plate Boundary
What is the location of more than 6,000 volcanic islands?
Japan
What is the term we use to describe where two tectonic plates meet?
Plate Boundaries
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What is the plate boundary where two plates collide?
Convergent Plate Boundary
What is the location of a hot spot?
Hawaii
What is the term for the process of one plate moving under the other?
Subduction
Describe one way a mountain can be formed...
**For full points you need to name the specific type of plate boundary
Convergent Oceanic-Continental Plate Boundary, Convergent Continental-Continental Plate Boundary,
Divergent Oceanic-Oceanic Plate Boundary
What is the plate boundary when 2 plates seperate?
Divergent Boundary
What is the name of the fault that is in California and overdue for an earthquake?
San Andreas Fault
What is the term that describes the mid layer of Earth that comes into contact with the warmer crust?
Earth's mantle
Describe how an earthquake forms.
An earthquake can form by there is friction between two plates converging or through the transform plate boundaries.
What are the 2 types of plate boundaries that create volcanoes?
Convergent and Divergent
Why is Africa splitting into two continents?
Divergent Plate Boundaries is when two plates are separating from each other. This is currently happening in Africa, in specific, the East Africa Rift Valley.
What is the term to describe creating a new crust on the bottom of the ocean?
Seafloor Spreading
Describe the process of a volcanic island formation.
Volcanic island can form at a convergent plate boundary, where two oceanic plates collide. As one plate sides on the other, the mantle comes into contact with warmer crush, which melts the rock layer of mantle. When this happens the molten rock erupts through the crust to form a volcano.
List the 3 types of plate boundaries.
What is the mountain that is growing 2.5 cm a year due to the convergent plate boundary.
Mt. Everest
What is the term for two continental plates diverging and creating a low, narrow hallow?
Describe the process of a hot spot forming a volcano.
Mantle plumes causes the crust to melt, magma breaks through, and produces the volcanoes.