Plate types & Composition
Driving forces and movement
Convergent boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
Transform boundaries & other things
100
The names of all of the plate types
What are Continental and Oceanic?
100
The force that drives tectonic plate movement
What are convection currents?
100
A formation that can result from a convergent plate boundary
What is a mountain, an island, or a volcano?
100
The amount of possible divergent boundaries
How many is 2?
100
The upper layer of the mantle
What is the asthenosphere?
200
The plate type that is thicker
What is a continental plate?
200
A loop made of circling convection currents
What is a convection cell?
200
The plate that normally slides over the other in a convergent oceanic-continental boundary
What is a continental plate?
200
A formation that can come from a divergent boundary
What is a rift valley, a trench, or a mid-ocean ridge?
200
The types of possible Transform boundaries
What are continental-continental, and oceanic-oceanic?
300
The plate type that is more dense
What is Oceanic?
300
The lubricating layer between the crust and the mantle
What is the lithosphere?
300
The process of one plate sliding under another in a convergent plate boundary
What is subduction?
300
The material that bubbles up to the surface of the crust in a divergent boundary
What is Magma or lava?
300
Where earthquakes normally occur
What are plate boundaries or fault lines?
400
The material that the continental plates are mostly comprised of
What is Granite?
400
The process that heats up the mantle that is near the inner core
What is radioactive decay?
400
The plate that pushes the other plate into the mantle in a convergent boundary
What is an overriding plate?
400
The direction that the crust goes in a divergent continental-continental boundary
What is down?
400
The amount of primary plates in the world
How many is seven?
500
The material that Oceanic plates are mostly comprised of
What is Basalt?
500
The thickness of the lithosphere
How thick is 100 km?
500
The plate that slides under the other into the mantle in a convergent boundary
What is a subducting plate?
500
The direction that the crust goes in a divergent oceanic-oceanic boundary
What is up?
500
The amount of secondary tectonic plates
How many is 8?
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