Plate boundaries
Landforms formed by plate tectonics
earthquake prone areas
the volcano prone zones
fun facts
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what are the three plate boundaries?
convergent divergent transform.
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what are 4 major things that can be created by plate tectonics?
trenches, vocalnos, earthquakes and mountains
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what are the earthquake prone areas in canada?
the pacific coast
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where are the volcano prone zones in the philippines
Camiguin, Sulu, Biliran, Albay, Bataan, Sorsogon, South Cotabato, Laguna, Camarines Sur and Batanes.
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what is subduction
the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
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what are ways 3 that a convergent boundary can happen
oceanic to oceanic
Oceanic to continental
Continental to continental
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How are volcanoes caused ?
They are caused by when one plate moves under the other.
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What are the earthquake prone areas in asia
Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, Guam, and New Zealand
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what are the volcano zones in canada
Mount Garibaldi
Many Canadians are unaware that western Canada lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire”
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what is magma
magma is lava before it hits air.
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What are the 2 divergent boundaries?
Oceanic and continental
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How are earthquakes caused ?
earthquakes are caused when two plates move past each other in different directions.
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what are the earthquake prone zone in the U.S?
California, Washington, Utah, Tennessee, Oregon, South Carolina, Nevada, Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois.
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what is the biggest volcano on earth?
Mauna Loa
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what is sea floor spreading?
- the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at midocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side.
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what is a transform boundary
When to plates slide past each other in opposite directions that forms earthquakes
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How are rifts caused?
Rift are caused when 2 tectonic plates move apart.
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what are the earthquake prone zones in hawaii?
the Kilauea volcano and the eastern rift zone.
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what is the smallest volcano on earth?
Taal volcano
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what is convection?
- the movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in transfer of heat."the final transfer of energy to the surface is by convection"
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what are all of the types of plate boundaries and what are the different combinations.
- Convergent (oceanic to oceanic)
- Convergent (Oceanic to Continental)
- Convergent (Continental to Continental)
- Divergent (Oceanic)
- Divergent (Continental)
- Transform
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what are all of the landforms that plate tectonics can cause.
- Ocean Trench
- Mid-Oceanic Ridge
- Volcano
- Mountains
- Rift Valley
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what are the earthquake prone zones in canada, asia, the us, and hawaii.
California, Washington, Utah, Tennessee, Oregon, South Carolina, Nevada, Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois.the Kilauea volcano and the eastern rift zone,Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, Guam, and New Zealand and the pacific coast
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when did MT loa last erupt?
April 15 1984
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what is new crust being formed?
New oceanic crust is continuously being formed as magma upwells at mid-ocean ridges. The characteristics of oceanic crust hold clues about its age and the environment in which it formed.