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What are tectonic plates made of?
What is rigid lithosphere
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Iceland has a _____ plate.
What is divergent.
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Where are the deepest parts of the ocean located at?
What is trenches.
100
What are the 5 geographical surveys?
What is seismic, gravity, magnetics, electrical, geodesy
100
When melt forms what rises?
What is volcanoes
200
A subducting plate is bent which way?
What is downward
200
There are three styles of convergent plate boundaries; name one.
What is continent- ocean collision
200
What does the word tectonic mean?
What is the deformation of the crust as a consequence of plate interaction.
200
What is the boundary that pushes away from eachother?
What is Divergent
200
What is randomly distributed over the globe?
What is earthquakes and volcanoes
300
As plates move apart what has erupted to fill the gap?
What is new material
300
what are hotspot volcanoes?
What is hot mantle pumes breaching the surface in the middle in the middle of a tectonic plate
300
What lies underneath the tectonic plates?
What is the asthenosphere and the mesosphere.
300
Which way is the subducting plate bend and why?
What is Downward because it forms a very deep depression floor called a Trench
300
What is a devastating disaster that is caused by and earthquake and has to do with water?
What is tsunami
400
How are most trenches formed?
What is a subduction zone.
400
The earth is divided into how many major plates?
What is 12
400
What causes plates to stick together?
What is friction.
400
What does the oceanic lithosphere do as it subsides?
What is heats and dehydrates
400
How do we know what the earth is made of?
What is geophysical surveys.
500
What does tectonic mean?
What is the deformation of the crust as a consequence of plate interaction.
500
What causes interaction of characteristics in the earths structure?
What is Tectonic features
500
What occurs when built up energy causes the tectonic plates to break appart?
What is earthquakes.
500
What Lithosphere subducts underneath the Continental lithosphere?
What is The oceanic lithosphere
500
PWhat forms between plate margins?
What is Volcanoes