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What is it called when plates move away from each other?
Divergent Boundary
What is it called when plates crash into each other?
Convergent Boundary
What is it called when plates slide past each other?
Transform Boundary
Do tectonic plates move fast or slow?
Slow
What is the shaking of Earth called?
Earthquake
What is it called when all of the continents were all put together in one "super continent"
Pangea
What do you call an underwater mountain range from divergent boundaries?
Mid-ocean ridge
What is melted rock called when it is under Earth's surface?
Magma
What forms when plates pull apart?
Rift-valley
What is a boundary?
Where 2 plates meet
When one tectonic plate goes underneath another plate.
Subduction
process that causes tectonic plates to move
convection
Two converging continental plates form this geological feature.
mountains
a _________ is formed at a subduction zone
trench
What landform is created when plates collide?
Mountains
If forces continue pulling apart Earths crust, a wide ___________ forms.
Ocean Basin
Earth's crust is stretched by forces within Earth. A _________ ________ forms and volcanic eruptions occur
Rift Valley.
Linear Sea
What type of boundary often causes volcanoes?
Convergent Boundary
Currents in the _______ cause the tectonic plates to move.
Mantle
The San Andreas Fault is an example of what kind of boundary?
Transform
Name ALL 3 types of plate boundaries
Convergent, transform, divergent.
What landform is created under the ocean when plates spread apart?
Mid- ocean ridge
The Great Rift Valley in Africa is an example of what kind of boundary?
Divergent
What type of boundary causes most earthquakes?
Transform Boundary