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The name of the type of crust that contains continents.
What is continental crust?
The crust of the Earth is broken up into these.
What are plates?
What is the name of scientific theory explains why the earth's plates move ?
Plate Tectonics
Where are plate tectonics located ?
all around the earth
Oceanic or continental plates are more dense and will subduct underneath another plate.
What is oceanic plates?
The type of crust that contains the oceans.
What is oceanic crust?
North America is on this plate.
What is the North American Plate?
When two plates collide or bump it's called ?
Convergent Boundaries
When two plates slide past each other it is called ?
Transform boundaries
What can happen when two plates collide ?
an earthquake , mountain building or a volcano erupts
The outer-most layer of the Earth.
What is the crust/lithosphere?
The process when an oceanic plate converges with another oceanic plate or continental plate.
What is subduction?
Who is the name of the scientist who discovered Plate Tectonics ?
Alfred Wegner
Can plate tectonic movement be predicted?
Yes
What can happen when two plates pull apart ?
earthquakes, seafloor spreading or a volcano erupts
This geological event happens when plates move whether they converge, diverge or at a transform boundary.
The area around the Pacific Plate where most earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?
When two plates move apart it's called ?
divergent boundaries
We always feel when a plate moves. True or False
Where do most earthquakes and volcanoes happen ?
In the Ring of Fire
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge that was found on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean gave the reasoning needed to support this hypotheis.
What is continental drift?
What causes the earth's plates to move ?
convection currents in the mantle
What is an earthquake or a landslide?
Where two plates meet is called a ______?
boundary