Plate
What is a plate?
Earth's outer layer is made up of large moving pieces.
What is a plate interaction?
Two plates can move away from each other and leave a crack between.
Plate could collide with each other and either one moves under the other or both meet and push each other into the sky or slide side by side.
What causes plates to move?
Heat within the asthenosphere creates convection currents that cause tectonic plates to move several centimeters per year
Collide meaning
Come together
Who is the prettiest one in this group?
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List three types of tectonic plate interactions
Divergent, Convergent and Transform boundaries
Divergent Boundaries
Magma rises from deep within the Earth and erupts to form new crust on the lithosphere
Convergent Boundaries
Are areas where plate move toward each other and collide.
Transform boundaries
Occurs when two plates grind past each other with only limited convergent or divergent activity.
A steep-sided valley formed by the downward displacement of a block of the earth's surface between nearly parallel faults.
What is Continental plate?
Tectonic plates under land
Plate collide froms what
Mountians
Areas where plate move toward each other and collide are known as what.
Compressional or Destructive boundaries.
What is Mid-Oceanic ridges?
An underwater mountain range.
What is Oceanic plate?
Tectonic plate under the ocean
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What is a trench?
A long narrow ditch
Types of Convergent boundaries
Subduction zones, obduction zones, orogenic belts
What is convection currents?
Transfer heat from one place to another by mass motion of a fluid.
Who does all the work
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List This In Order from lowest to highest
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Continental Crust
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Continental Crust
Divergent boundaries causes what
Mid - oceanic ridges and rift valleys.
What is Asthenosphere?
The upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere.
Convergent boundaries causes what
Deep trenches, earthquakes and volcanoes
One real life example of each type of plate interaction
Your example