Tectonic Plates 1
In this type of plate boundary, plates are moving apart
What are divergent plate boundaries
What is the thinnest part of the earth?
What is the crust or lithosphere
What is transform plate boundaries
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
What specifically lies directly beneath the earth's crust
What is the Asthenosphere (upper mantle)
ONE evidence of the state of the earth's Interior
What are seismic waves, material, and condition of the earth's interior.
What is the most inner layer of the earth
What is the core (consisting of the inner and outer core)
Explain why Oceanic Plate will subduct a Continental Plate
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What is one evidence to support the plate tectonic theory
What is-
- the landmasses fit like a jigsaw puzzle
- Fossils
- Volcanoes and Mountain building
- Seismic activity
Where do convection currents occurs?
What is the Asthenosphere (Upper mantle)
What causes the plates to move?
What is convection currents in the mantle
What oozes out of the earth when plates diverge?
What is magma
The biggest fault in California
What is the San Andreas Fault
Plate boundary where no volcanic activity is present
What is Transform
Divergent plate boundaries create these features of molten material or magma
What is island arcs or underwater volcanoes
Plate boundary where plates slide against one another moving in the same direction at different rates or different directions
What is Transform or Conservative
When a plate slides under another
What is subduction
Name the two different types of crust
What is oceanic and continental
double (Oceanic SIMA and Continental (SIAL)
A continental plate converging with a continental plate creates this
What are fold mountains
What do oceanic-to-oceanic convergent plate boundaries create?
What is an island arc
DOUBLE for example: Aleutian Islands
What are the largest mountains above sea level created by convergent plate boundaries specifically a collision zone?
What are the Himalayas
The Mid- Atlantic Ridge is a result of what plate boundary
What is Divergent
What do oceanic to continental convergent plate boundaries create?
What are volcanoes on land and trenches in the ocean also produce seismic activity