Name That Plate!
#2 & #3
What numbers are the North and South American plates?
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Rift Valleys, and Mountains are found around these.
What are plate boundaries?
They divide and move away from each other.
How do divergent plates move?
Creates mountains.
What are convergent boundaries?
Caused the Himalayan mountains.
What is a convergent boundary?
#7
What number is the Antarctic plate?
The "super continent" (all the continents connected).
What is Pangea?
Helps the plates move.
What are convection currents?
Creates rift valleys with continental plates and ocean ridges with oceanic plates.
What are divergent boundaries?
Caused the Great Rift Valley in Africa.
What is a divergent boundary?
#4
What number is the Eurasian plate?
Causes Tsunamis.
What can earthquakes (transform boundaries) cause?
They are made when two continental plates converge.
How are mountains made?
Causes earthquakes.
What are transform boundaries?
Caused the San Andreas Fault in California.
What is a transform boundary?
#1 & #5
What numbers are the Pacific and African plates?
Causes Oceanic crust to subduct under Continental crust.
What is density?
Hiding
What is subduction?
Subduction: Where volcanoes often occur.
Collision: Where mountains are usually formed.
What are convergent boundaries?
Caused the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a divergent boundary?
#6
What number is the Indo-Australian plate?
The rigid part of the Earth including the crust and the upper mantle (makes up the plates of the Earth).
What is the lithosphere?
Formed when oceanic and continental plates converge and the oceanic plate subducts.
How are volcanoes and trenches made?
Forms new ocean floor.
What is Divergent Boundary?
(sea-floor spreading)
Caused the Ring of Fire.
What is a convergent-subduction boundary?