Vocabulary
A place where two tectonic plates slide past each other
Transform Boundery
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
plate boundary
The Himalayan mountains are the result of a ___________________________ boundary.
convergent
A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere that includes the continental crust of Antarctica and the surrounding oceanic crust
Antartic Plate
The thickest layer of the Earth
mantle
What is the equation to calculate speed?
speed = distance รท time
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary.
divergent
Hot air or liquid is less ________________ than cool air or liquid
What is dense
Huge piece of crust that slowly moves on the upper, ductile part of the mantle
Tectonic Plate
Plates float on top of the _______________________.
asthenosphere
What energy transformations take place when a battery-operated radio is in use?
A. Chemical to electrical to sound
B. Sound to chemical to electrical
A. Chemical to electrical to sound
Name four of the major plates
North American plate, South American plate, Eurasian Plate, Indoaustralia plate, African plate, Antarctica plate
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
Earthquakes
The process in which a denser plate is pushed downward beneath a less dense plate when plates converge
Subduction
The cool, rigid, outermost layer of Earth that consists of the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle;
Lithosphere
This mega continent existed 250 million years ago
PANGEA
This is what causes tectonic plates to move
convection currents in the mantle
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ____________________ boundary.
The place where two different plates have contact
Plate Boundery
Oceans, and other bodies of water, are found on which layer of Earth?
The crust
The amount of matter in a given space or volume
Density
The two types of convergent boundaries
subduction (where volcanoes often occur) and collision (where mountains are usually formed)
The ring of fire is near what which plate tectonic?
Pacific Plate