Tectonic Plates 1
In this type of boundary, plates are moving towards each other.
Convergent plate boundaries
In this type of plate boundary, plates are moving apart
What are divergent plate boundaries
What is the thinnest part of the earth?
The crust
Name two types of landforms.
Hills, mountains, volcanoes, canyons
Patterns of magnetic stripes along boundaries of tectonic plates
Bands
Where do tectonic plates interact?
Boundaries
What lies directly beneath the crust
The mantle
What is the liquid part of the earth called?
The outer core
True or false!
Tectonic plates still move today but very fast!
False!
Long chains or groups of mountains are called..
A sudden release of energy under Earth’s surface that makes the ground shake or crack
Earthquake
Earthquakes happen because of
Transform boundaries sliding past eachother
This land feature is created by the movement of tectonic plates under Earth’s surface. Rocks shift and a gap forms.
Fault line
Name two types of natural disasters that occur at plate boundaries!
Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
Mountain ridges form when an oceanic and a continental plate collides.
False
A deep valley at the bottom of the ocean is called..
Divergent plate boundaries create this
Mid ocean ridges
What are the cracks in the earth where plates slide against one another?
Fault lines
Mountains or hills made by hot rocks and gases moving to Earth’s surface from deep inside Earth
Volcanoes
There is only one type of crust: continental.
False. There are two, continental and oceanic.
A continental plate converging with a continental plate creates this
Mountains
The single huge supercontinent that existed millions of years go when all of the Earth's continents were joined together is called...
What is a Pangaea?
A large continuous landmass is called...
A continent
What do seismologists study?
Earthquakes
What are scientists who study volcanoes called?
Volcanologists