Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?
What is at Plate Boundaries
What is subduction?
subduction is when one tectonic plate slide under the other and is forced to sink due to gravity.
What Crustal Feature is formed during a Convergent Boundary
What is trenches, volcanoes and fault lines.
What are the three steps in the weathering cycle?
Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
What Boundary creates a trench?
What is convergent boundary and the process of subduction, creating a trench
Earth's crust is broken up into several large rocky pieces called ...
What is Plates
What kind of plate boundaries are found in California.
Divergent,Transform,and Convergent
What crustal feature is created during a transform boundary.
What is earthquake,trenches, and ridges
The process by which water, wind, ice or gravity moves fragments of rock and soil is….
Erosion
Where are most trenches located?
What is most trenches are located near the pacific ocean all around the world.
The San Andreas fault separates the ________ plate from the __________ plate.
What is Pacific,North American
The San Andreas Fault is a classical _______ boundary
What is Transform Boundary
What are the two types of crust?
What is Continental and oceanic
Oceanic Trenches are formed by _______ plate boundaries
What is Divergent
These natural disasters occur when a sudden movement occurs along transform boundaries.
What are earthquakes?
The East-Pacific Rise and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge represent ________ boundaries.
Divergent
Which of the is the name of the ancient supercontinent formed 28 Million Years ago.
What is pangea
What is mechanical weathering?
What is a process through which rocks are phisically broken into smaller pieces
Plate movement is caused by ______________.
what is convection currents in the mantle
The youngest rocks on the seafloor are most likely found...
What is closest to a Mid-Ocean Ridge
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
What is earthquakes
An avalanche is an example of which process?
Erosion
Weathering
deposition
What is Erosion