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True/False earthquakes can occur that are not near a plate boundary?
True
What is radiation?
What are 3 pieces of evidence of the continental drift?
Land features, Fossils, and Climate
what is convention current?
the movement of gas particles and liquid moving from one place to another.
Who made the plate tectonics theory.
Alfred Wegner
When does the deep ocean trench form?
It happened during subduction?
Who came up with the continental drift theory?
Alfred Wegner
What plate boundaries form volcanos?
convergent plate boundaries.
True/False continental crust is less dense than oceanic crust
False
When does sea floor spread happen?
It occurs during The movement of divergent plate boundaries.
What landform is made from The plate boundary convergent (continental/oceanic)?
Mountains
WHAT LANDFORM IS CREATED FROM TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARIES?
earthquake prone areas.
What is the liquid beneath the crust?
Magma
When does new earth crust form?
It happens when magma is pushes up from the mantle.
What is the main landforms that occur from convergent (continental/Continental)?
Mounting ranges.
What landform is create from the plate boundary convergent (Oceanic/Oceanic)?
The Mid-Ocean Ridge
What is plate tectonics?
A theroy that had to do with the earths outer shell.
What makes mid-ocean ridges form?
The movement of divergent plate boundaries which is cause from the movement of tectonic plates.
What is a rift valley?
A rift valley is a valley that is formed from the earth's crust, from two parallel faults or two set of faults.
What plate boundary is the mid-ocean trench formed by?
Divergent plate boundary.