Facts
Convergent Boundaries create...
Range of Mountais.
Where are earthquakes most eventually happened?
At the boundaries of Plate Tectonics.
How many types of rocks do you know?
Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic.
Two types of crust
Continental and Oceanic
Divergent boundaries create...
Rift valleys or sea floor spreading.
Where is located the major volcanic action in the world?
Around the Ring of Fire
What are the processes to convert Metamorphic rocks in magma?
Melting
3 types of plates
convergent, divergent, transform
Transform Boundaries create...
Faults.
Layer of Earth in which Convection Currents occur...
The mantle
What is the name of the tool use to identify and measure earthquakes?
seismographs.
Provide the names of three igneous rocks...
Granite, Basalt and Obsidian.
How many major plates are there
15
Name one of the biggest Faults in the world...
San Andreas Fault
Molten material in the mantle are part of this sublayer called...
asthenosphere
The Great Rift Valley is located in....
Africa
Sediments go under these two processes to be sedimentary rocks...
Cementation and Compaction. ( Lithification )
The Plate Tectonics theory was initiated and study by which scientist?
Alfred Wegener
What is the name of the plate formation when one plate is denser than the other and volcanic eruptions or earthquakes occur...
Subduction.
Plate Tectonic Movements are generated by the rotation of the globe and the tidal forces of the ?
Sun and Moon
Which are the processes to transform igneous rocks in sedimentary rocks
Weathering and Erosion.