Boundries
Formation
Effects
Theories
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100
When two plates grind against each other causeing friction what is the name of the boundry ?
Transform Boundry
100
What is the most common effect of plates moving ?
Earthquakes
200
When two plates collide and on plate goes under the other it is called ?
Convergent Boundry
200
When a subduction happens what usally forms after ?
Volcano
200
What area in the world is most prone to earthquake because they are on a fault line ?
Asia and the Pacific ocean
300
What causes a convergent boundry ?
Subduction
300
Besides earthquakes what are some other effects of plates moving ?
Tsunami, Mountians ,and Volcano
300
Why do they think California is going to brake away from North America ?
Califonia is on a boundry line and they think in a few years it will move and take california with it .
400
What is the name of the boundry that moves away from each other ?
Divergent
400
When magama rises to the crust to for a n new land formation it usally a ?
Island
400
the Hypothisist is that the tectonic plates have been moving since the ?
Formation of Earth
500
Where two (or more) tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide.
Convergent
500
Where are the tectionic plates located ? (what layer of the earth)
The lithosphere
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