MAPS
What does the acronym BOLTS mean?
Border, Orientation, Legend, Scale, Title
The plate boundary when 2 plates move past each other horizontally?
Transform plate boundary
Which direction is the Nazca plate moving to create the mountain range?
East
Which plate is moving North West to create the Hawaiian islands?
The pacific plate
What provided layers of sedimentation forming the base of Uluru?
An inland sea
Name the mountain range formed by the Indian and Eurasian plate boundaries?
Himalayas
The plate boundary when 2 plates collide?
Convergent plate boundary
What occurs to the Earth's crust when 2 Continental plates collide/converge?
The crust is pushed upwards creating mountain ranges.
What does the plate move across to create a string of volcanoes?
Magma
What type of coarse sandstone rock welded together to form Uluru?
Arkose
Name the mountain formation on the Nazca and South American plate boundary?
Andes
The plate boundary when 2 plates move away from each other?
Divergent plate boundary
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are a hazard of which boundary?
Convergent plate boundary
What is wrong with the plate that moves slowly across the hotspot?
It is thinner and weaker
Which forest is being destroyed in Central and South America?
Amazon rainforest
Name the formation on the Pacific and North American plate boundary?
Rockies
The 2 different types of tectonic plates?
Continental and Oceanic
What is the explosive discharge that occurs from a converging plate boundary?
Magma - Lava
What is Subduction?
When one tectonic plate slips under another plate
Why is deforestation occurring in Central and South America - 3 reasons?
Trees for logging - economy
Clearing land for farming and agriculture
Houses being built - urbanisaiton
Name the geographical feature that surrounds the Pacific plate, Filipino plate, Cocos plate, Nazca plate and a section of the Antarctic plate?
The Ring of Fire.
Which tectonic plate is heavier?
Oceanic
Which Tectonic plate boundary does not create a volcanic eruption?
Transform
Which plate subducts when a continental and oceanic plate collide?
Oceanic plate subducts
What is the biggest pressure for more land?
Increasing population