Divergent Boundaries
Along divergent barrier plates move___
Apart
At a convergent boundary plates______.
Come together
At a transformative boundary plates____.
Slip past eachother
What is the motion of Earth's plates?
Slow and constant
At what type of boundary do the plates slip past each other?
Transform boundaries
When a divergent boundary forms beneath the oceanic lithosphere it creates a ___
Mid-ocean ridge
What forms at a convergent boundary?
Mountains/volcanoes
Transform boundaries sometimes cause___
earthquakes
Why do Earth's plates move?
Convection currents in the mantle
What is one of the more popular faults?
The San Andreas fault
One of the more popular divergent boundaries is found in _____
Iceland
Where plates serving landmasses ______, the crust crumples and buckles into mountain ranges
collide
Earthquakes caused by transform boundaries are measured by____
magnitude
The Earth's crust and upper mantle below the crust are broken up into large solid _____.
plates
The geological theory that states that the Earth's crust is in constant slow motion?
Plate tectonics
At divergent boundaries in the oceans,_____ from deep in the Earth's mantle rises toward the surface and pushes apart two or more plates.
magma
When oceanic crust collides with continental plates, the oceanic crust gets______.
subducted
At a transform boundary, there is no vertical movement, only______.
horizontal
The man who came up with the theory of continental drift.
Alfred Wegener
The tallest mountain system on Earth
The Himilayas.
Divergent boundaries _______ the ocean floor.
renew
The Andes were formed by _____ crust subducting under continental crust.
oceanic
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a transform boundary, where two plates grind past each other along what are called ________
_________ is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere.
Plate techtonics
Where do Earth's plates meet?
Boundaries