Boundary Types
This type of plate boundary has earthquakes, but never volcanoes or mountains.
What is a transform boundary?
This type of heat transfer drives plate tectonics.
What is convection?
This scientist studies rocks, minerals and plate tectonics.
What is a geologist?
This area is where most earthquakes happen.
What is near a tectonic plate boundary?
This prefix on a word means "under" or "beneath".
What is sub?
This is the type of boundary that builds mountains, like Mt. Everest and the rest of the Himalayas.
What is convergent?
These circular patterns are found in the mantle, and your boiling noodles.
What are convection currents?
These are 2 of the 4 reasons that we use models in science.
What is these things are too big, too small, too dangerous and too far away?
This ocean is surrounded by convergent boundaries and is therefore home to many volcanoes.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This subsurface event is required for igneous rock to exist.
What is melting of rock?
This type of boundary helps the Atlantic Ocean continue to get bigger.
What is divergent?
This thermal energy transfer happens when objects with different temperatures touch. Don't touch that lava!
What is conduction?
This is when a scientist is gathering information in the real world.
What is a field study?
This state has most of the volcanoes in the United States.
What is Alaska?
This type of rock is made by heat and pressure changing rocks.
What is metamorphic rock?
These boundaries contain subduction zones.
What is convergent?
This energy flow explains how the Sun's energy reaches Earth.
What is radiation?
This man first formulated the idea that the surface of the Earth was made of moving pieces.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This state is entirely made from volcanoes, some active and some extinct.
What is Hawaii?
This Earth layer provides the heat for subsurface processes.
What is the Core? (or Inner Core)
This type of zone is where earthquakes form between the North American plate and the Pacific plate.
What is a transform boundary?
Hot magma rises and cooler magma sinks.
What is convection?
This is used to establish scientific theories. Police look for it too.
What is evidence?
This is why Florida has no earthquakes or volcanoes.
What is that we are far from any plate boundaries?
This is where the melting of a subducted tectonic plate happens.
What is the mantle?