Plate Movement
How fast do plates move?
as fast as your fingernail move or about 2 cm a year
The plate we live on?
North American Plate
One Effect?
Earthquake
Three effects?
Earthquake, Mountains and volcanoes
Two effects?
earthquake and volcanoes
The large landmass the began the world?
Pangaea
Plate that has two continents on it?
Eurasian Plate
what occurs at a transform boundary?
plates sliding past each other
what happens at a convergent plate boundary?
colliding plates
what happens at a divergent plate boundary?
seperating, spreading or pulling apart of plates
All plates move in the same direction?
False
Country that collided to form the Mt Everest?
India
Free Points
Continental - continental collisions create?
Mountains
Forms when magma from the mantle rises up through the opening ocean floor?
volcanoes
What is the theory of moving plates called?
Plate Tectonics
Plate with the coldest climate?
Antarctic Plate
Free Points
at an oceanic - continental plate collision what does one plate do?
sub-ducts below the other
what forms at divergent plate boundaries?
Who came up with the theory of Continental Drift?
Wegener
What plate is surrounded by the "Ring of Fire"?
Pacific Plate
Name of a transform boundary in the US?
San Andreas Fault
Oceanic - Oceanic collision create?
deep ocean trenches
Where are divergent plate boundaries located?
under oceans