Boundary Vocab
Two Types of Crust
Convergent Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Transform Boundary
100
When two plates move away from each other
What is divergent
100
What oceanic crust is made of
What is basalt
100
Where might you find a CC convergent boundary?
What is Nepal
100
Where you would find a O-O divergent boundary
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge
100
Where a Transform boundary is located
What is California
200
When two plates move towards each other
What is convergent
200
A type of crust that never subducts
What is continental crust
200
Where you would find a O-O convergent boundary
What is Japan
200
Where you would find a C-C divergent boundary
What is the East African Rift Valley
200
The effect of a Transform Boundary
What is earthquakes
300
This theory states that Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections
What is the theory of plate tectonics
300
The denser of the two types of crust
What is oceanic crust
300
3 of the 4 effects caused by O-C convergent boundaries
What is volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and deep ocean trenches?
300
3 of the 4 effects of a O-O divergent boundary
What is undersea mountain range, volcanoes, earthquakes and the creation of new ocean floor
300
A force that builds up when two plates are stuck together
What is pressure
400
The crust and upper mantle together
What is the lithosphere
400
What continental crust is made from
What is granite
400
The 2 effects caused by CC convergent boundaries
What is mountains and earthquakes.
400
The three effects of a C-C divergent boundary
What is earthquakes, volcanoes and a valley that may contain a lake
400
How plates move in a transform boundary
What is slide past one another
500
The layer beneath the lithosphere, that is flexible
What is the astheonosphere
500
When two oceanic plates collide, this one will subduct.
What is the older, denser plate
500
This makes C-C convergent boundaries different from other convergent boundaries
What is no subduction = no volcanos
500
Why doesn't a C-C divergent boundary split the plate completely in two?
Continental plates are too thick to be completely split
500
In Transform boundaries, and all plate boundaries, the plates are being moved by these in the mantle
What is convection currents
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