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On which tectonic plate is Round Rock, Texas?
What is the NORTH AMERICAN PLATE?
100
What plate contains the continent of South America?
What is the SOUTH AMERICAN PLATE?
100
Transform boundaries produce what geological event?
What is an EARTHQUAKE?
100
What happens (5 things) when an OCEAN plate and a CONTINENTAL plate collide?
What is: a TRENCH, MOUNTAINS, SUBDUCTION ZONE, VOLCANOES and EARTHQUAKES?
100
What type of plate movement made the MID OCEAN RIDGE?
What is DIVERGENT OCEANIC PLATES?
200
What plate is mostly covered by ocean?
What is What is the PACIFIC PLATE?
200
What plate contains the continent where marsupials are plentiful?
What is the INDO-AUSTRALIAN PLATE?
200
When 2 plates DIVERGE on a continent, what geological feature happens?
What is a RIFT VALLEY?
200
What are 2 geological events that happen around the Pacific Rim?
What are VOLCANOES and EARTHQUAKES?
200
As new ocean crust is being formed in the middle of the oceans, what is happening to older oceanic crust?
What is SUBDUCTION?
300
What is the largest plate?
What is the PACIFIC PLATE?
300
What plate boundaries move toward each other?
What is a CONVERGENT BOUNDARY?
300
What do we call it when two plates DIVERGE under the ocean?
What is SEAFLOOR SPREADING?
300
The area of the Pacific Rim is called what? ___ ____ __ ____
What is THE RING OF FIRE?
300
San Francisco is on the N American plate moving south but Los Angeles is on what plate moving north?
What is the PACIFIC PLATE?
400
Which plate contains the continent of Africa?
What is the AFRICAN PLATE?
400
What do you call plates that move away from each other?
What are DIVERGENT BOUNDARIES?
400
What is formed when 2 continental plates CONVERGE?
What are MOUNTAINS?
400
What geological event caused the Red Sea?
What is RIFTING?
400
What is thought to be the force that moves the plates of the Earth?
What are CONVECTION CURRENTS?
500
Which plate is the second largest (with the largest continent)?
What is the EURASIAN PLATE?
500
What do you call plates that slip sideways past each other?
What are TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES?
500
What things can form when 2 oceanic plates CONVERGE?
What is an OCEAN TRENCH and VOLCANIC ISLANDS?
500
What type of plate movement caused the Rocky Mountains?
What is CONVERGENT CONTINENTAL?
500
What geological feature is formed by oceanic crust divergence?
What are OCEAN BASINS?
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