Tectonic Plates 1
Tectonic Plates 2
Tectonic Plates 3
Tectonic Plates 4
Tectonic Plates 5
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In this type of boundary, plates are moving towards each other.
What are convergent plate boundaries
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In this type of plate boundary, plates are moving apart
What are divergent plate boundaries
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What is the thinnest part of the earth?
What is the crust
100
In this type of boundary, plates slide against each other
What is transform plate boundaries
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What is the name of the theory that states the earth's crust is made of large sections moving over the mantle.
What is Plate Tectonics
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Where do tectonic plates interact?
What is boundaries
200
What lies directly beneath the crust
What is the mantle
200

What element do you find in the core

What is nickel and/or iron

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What is the most inner layer of the earth
What is the core
200

What stress is caused in a transform boundary

What is shear stress

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What happen to magma when it cools down?
What is- it becomes a solid
300

Where do convection currents occurs?

What is the mantle

300

What causes the plates to move?

What is convection currents in the mantle

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What oozes out of the earth when plates diverge?
What is magma
300

Five Physical Layers of the Earth

Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer Core, Inner Core

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Transform boundaries create this
What is earthquakes
400
Divergent plate boundaries create this
What is island arcs or underwater volcanoes
400
cracks in the earth where plates slide against one another
What is a fault
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When a plate slides under another
What is subduction
400
Name the two different types of crust
What is oceanic and continental
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A continental plate converging with a continental plate creates this
What is a mountain
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What stress is created in a divergent boundary

What is tension

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Area in Pacific Ocean where many volcanoes are located

What is the Ring of Fire

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What do continental to continental plate boundaries create?
mountains
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What stress is caused at a convergent boundary?

What is compression

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