types of plates
important stuff
formations
vocab.
extra
100
What is the plate boundary that slides past each other?
transform
100
what is the theory of earths surface splitting into pieces of ridged rock and moving over the asthenosphere?
the theory of plate tectonics
100
What is the formation that Continental vs. Continental forms?
Mountains
100
it is a Greek word that means to build.
tectonic
100
What is the main ______ vs. ______ that forms mountains?
Continent vs. Continent
200
What type of plate boundary is where subduction happens?
convergent
200
What forms at the bottom of the ocean at a divergent plate boundary?
mid-ocean ridge
200
What is a chain of volcanoes?
island arc
200
What is the semi-melted layer of earth?
asthenosphere
200
What is the thing that shakes the ground at a plate boundary?
earthquakes
300
What is the plate boundary that makes quiet fissure volcanoes?
divergent
300
What is when the older and denser plate goes under another?
Ocean vs. Ocean
300
What does the convergent plate foundry most likely do to go under ground?
subduction
300
What is the layer the maces the plates?
lithoshpere
300
What is the force that is pushing the plates apart?
ridge push
400
What plate boundaries make earthquakes?
all plates!!!!!
400
What is when the denser crust sinks under the less dense crust. It will form a trench and volcanoes will erupt?
Continent vs. Ocean
400
What does a subduting plate make?
a trench
400
What is the net work of satellites orbiting earth?
G.P.S.
400
What is the thing that makes the plates move similar to the conveyor belt at the grocery store?
basal drag
500
What plate boundary makes rift valleys and mid-ocean ridges?
divergent
500
What is the person who purposed the theory of plate tectonics?
J. Tuzo Willson
500
What forms on land at a divergent plate boundary?
rift valley
500
What is the circulation of material caused by differences in temperature and density.
convection current
500
What is the force that pulls on the end of the plate that is subducting?
slab pull
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