Vocabulary
Plate Boundaries
Earthquakes
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Volcanoes
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Volcanoes
Layers of the Earth
In the
REAL WORLD
REAL WORLD
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What are tectonic plates?
Large pieces of Earth’s crust that move
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How many main types of plate boundaries are there?
3 Boundaries... Convergent, Divergent, Transform
100
What natural event happens when plates suddenly move?
Earthquakes
100
What layer do we live on?
Crust
100
What state has many earthquakes?
California
200
What is the mantle?
The layer of Earth beneath the crust where plates float
200
Which boundary is when plates move apart?
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Divergent Boundary
200
What forms when magma reaches Earth’s surface?
Volcanoes
200
Which layer is the thickest?
Mantle
200
What ocean has the “Ring of Fire”?
Pacific Ocean
300
What is a fault?
A) A type of rock
B) A crack in Earth’s crust
C) A layer of Earth
B) A crack in Earth’s crust
300
Which boundary causes plates to crash into each other?
A: A) Divergent
B) Convergent
C) Transform
B) Convergent
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Where do most earthquakes happen?
Along plate boundaries
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What is the center of the Earth called?
A) Crust
B) Core
C) Mantle
B) Core
300
The San Andreas Fault is what type of boundary?
A) Convergent
B) Divergent
C) Transform
C) Transform
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What is plate movement called?
Plate Tectonics
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Which boundary is when plates slide past each other?
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Transform Boundary
400
Which boundary is most likely to cause earthquakes?
A) Transform
B) Divergent
C) All of them
C) All of them, but Transform boundaries cause the worst.
400
Is the outer core solid or liquid?
Liquid
400
What landform is created when plates move apart in the ocean?
Mid-ocean ridge
500
What causes plates to move?
Heat and convection currents in the mantle
500
What usually forms at a convergent boundary?
Mountains, volcanoes, or trenches
500
Why do volcanoes often form at convergent boundaries?
Hint: Think subduction
One plate melts and turns into magma
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Which layer is made of solid metal and is the hottest?
Inner core
500
What happens when oceanic and continental plates collide?
The oceanic plate goes under (subduction)