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
100
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
200

Where do tectonic plates interact?

What is boundaries/fault lines

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What lies directly beneath the crust
What is the mantle
200
What is the liquid part of the earth called
What is outer core
200

What is the most inner layer of the earth

What is the inner core

200

Why does oceanic crust subduct beneath continental crust?

What is- It is more dense

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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 (also in our atmosphere and in our oceans!)

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What causes the plates to move?
What is convection currents in the mantle
300
What oozes out of the earth when plates diverge?
What is magma
300
The biggest fault in California
What is the San Andreas Fault
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Transform boundaries commonly cause this

What is earthquakes

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Divergent plate boundaries create this
What is island arcs or underwater volcanoes
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cracks in the earth where plates slide against one another. this also separates each plate.

What is a fault

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When an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate

What is subduction

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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
500

What do divergent plate boundaries create?

What is an rift valleys (on land) and mid-ocean ridges (under water)

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What are the some of the largest mountains created be convergent plate boundaries?
What are the Himalayas
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What do continental to continental plate boundaries create?
mountains
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What do oceanic to continental convergent plate boundaries create?

What are deep-ocean trenches in the ocean

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