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Tectonic Plates
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100
Soil
What is ground or dirt.
100
A large landmass.
What is a continent.
100
The earth is divided into this many large plates.
What is 12
100
Sometimes formed when there is continental-continental convergence.
What is mountains.
100
During oceanic - continental convergence, this plate is more dense.
What is the oceanic plate.
200
A 4 letter word for what we live on.
What is land
200
This determines whether something will float or sink.
What is density.
200
Plates are always doing this very slowly.
What is moving
200
This flows out of the mantle in a mid-ocean ridge.
What is magma.
200
When something does not float, it will often do this.
What is sink.
300
Distinct
What is clearly defined and noticable.
300
A hot, liquid rock that is in the mantle.
What is magma.
300
Convection in this part of the earth causes plate movement.
What is the mantle.
300
During this motion, hot liquid rises and cool liquid sinks in a constant cycle.
What is convection.
300
This type of natural disaster can cause buildings to fall down.
What is earthquake
400
Split
What is to break into two or more parts.
400
A crack in the ocean floor that spreads all around the world.
What is global mid-atlantic ridge.
400
When two plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary.
400
Rise
What is a four letter word that describes when something goes up
400
This is formed when continental crust splits and is pulled apart.
What is a rift valley.
500
A drawing or picture of an area often on a flat surface (like a piece of paper)
What is a map
500
The name given to the process or the earth floor getting bigger.
What is sea-floor spreading.
500
Examples of modern evidence that proves plate tectonics.
What are earthquakes, volcanoes, rift valleys, mid-ocean ridges, subduction zones.
500
A group or series of mountains that are together.
What is a mountain range.
500
This is the name given when one plate slides under another plate.
What is subduction.