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The places on the planet where plate tectonics are located
What is the whole planet is made of these plates
The name of the supercontinent
What is Pangea
The name given to the line where plates meet
What is fault line
The plate movement in which two plates move towards one another.
What is convergent
What is Continental Drift
The pieces of our Earth that move around. We call these pieces
What is Tectonic Plates
It is called lava when melted rock is outside of a volcano, when it is inside the volcano it is called
What is magma
The plate movement that causes the most earthquakes
What is transform
The 3 main types of plate movements
convergent, divergent, transform
T/F Tectonic Plates can be oceanic or continental
What is true
The plate movement that causes canyons or rift valleys
What is divergent
The location on our planet where there is a lot of volcanoes and earthquakes is known as
What is The Ring of Fire
The type of plate movement when a dense ocean plate goes under a denser land/continental plate it is called
T/F plate tectonics move fast
False
The plate movement that causes mountains
What is convergent
The part of our earth between the crust and core
What is the mantle
Plate Tectonic Movements are generated by the rotation of the globe and the tidal forces of the ?
Sun and Moon
What causes Plate tectonics to move?
What is Magna flowing beneath the Earth (convection currents)
The plate movement that results in the most volcanoes