Earth
Tectonic Plates
Volcanos
Mountains
100
Name the three layers of Earth.
The crust, mantle, and core.
100
What are the three types of tectonic plates?
Convergent, divergent, and transform.
100
What are volcanoes?
An opening in the Earth's crust where hot magma and gases escape from inside the Earth.
100
What is a mountain?
A landform formed through volcanism or tectonic forces.
200
What layer of Earth do we live on?
The crust.
200
Waht do convergent boundaries do to tectonic plates?
Brings them together/they collide.
200
Where are volcanoes generally found?
Where tectonic plates are convirging and diverging.
200
What are mountains made of?
Earth and/or rock material.
300
What is the middle layer of Earth?
The mantle.
300
What do divergent boundaries do to tectonic plates?
Pulls them apart/divides them.
300
Where is the Ring of Fire located?
The Pacific Ocean.
300
True or False:Mountains are formed when two oceanic plates collide.
Flase; mountains are formed when two continental plates collide.
400
What is the most inner layer of Earth?
The core.
400
What do transform bondaries do to tectonic plates?
They grind past each other.
400
What is the Ring of Fire?
A group of volcanoes that are formed in a circle in the Pacific Ocean.
400
What is tectonic subsidence.
When tectonic plates decrease elevation in mountains.
500
What layer of Earth takes up the most mass?
The mantle.
500
Name what occurs when subduction zones, obduction, and orogenic belts occur.
A subduction zone is when a oceanic plate is pushed under a continental plate, an obduction occurs when a continental plate is pushed under a oceanic plate, and an orogenic belt occurs when two continental plates collide to make a mountain range.
500
What is seafloor spreading?
It is when volcanic activity forms new oceanic crust.
500
What is tectonic uplift?
When plate tectonics increase elevation in mountains.
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