Transform Boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
Convergent Boundaries
Earth's Spheres
Misc Plate questions
100
What type of action do plates engage in at transform boundaries.
What is slipping and grinding?
100
The direction plates move relative to each other in a divergent boundary.
What is apart?
100
The number of types of outcomes of a convergent boundary collision.
What is 2?
100
This consists of the rock and minerals on the Earth's surface and below it.
What is the geosphere?
100
The original singular land mass that plate tectonics caused to break into today's continents.
What is Pangea?
200
This state contains the famous transform boundary call the San Andreas Fault.
What is California?
200
This is formed at divergent boundaries.
What is new crust?
200
This is formed when one plate slides underneath the other.
What is a volcano?
200
The part of Earth in which living things interact with nonliving things.
What is the biosphere?
200
Large parts of the lithosphere are called this.
What are tectonic plates?
300
The natural disaster caused by these boundaries.
What is an earthquake?
300
This pushes the plates apart in this type of boundary.
What is magma?
300
This is formed when one plate does not slide underneath the other when two plates collide at a convergent boundary.
What is a mountain?
300
This contains the gasses, such as oxygen, that organisms use for their life processes.
What is the atmosphere?
300
The number of types of plate boundary there are.
What is 3?
400
The reason for the type of natural disaster caused by transform boundaries.
What is friction?
400
The change in temperature that must happen to the magma at this type of boundary for new crust to form. (cooling or heating)
What is cooling?
400
Convergent plate boundaries have a visible impact on the Earth's surface. (true/false)
What is true about convergent plate boundaries?
400
All the water on Earth is part of this.
What is the hydrosphere?
400
Plates interact differently based on this.
What is a plate boundary?
500
The differing characteristic between this type of boundary and the others.
What is neither creating or destroying lithosphere?
500
Divergent boundaries could be seen as the opposite of this other type of boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
500
This is the word used for when one plate slides underneath another.
What is subduction?
500
Tectonic plates would be considered part of this sphere.
What is the geosphere?
500
There are this many major tectonic plates.
What is 15?
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