Tectonic Plates 1
In this type of plate boundary, plates are moving apart
What are divergent plate boundaries
What is the thinnest part of the earth?
What is the crust
In this type of boundary, plates slide against each other
What is transform plate boundaries
What is the name of the theory that states the earth's crust is made of large sections moving over the mantle.
What is Plate Tectonics
What lies directly beneath the crust
What is the mantle
What is the liquid part of the earth called
What is outer core
What is the most inner layer of the earth
What is the core
Which plates move Side to Side?
Transform
What happen to magma when it cools down?
What is- it becomes a solid
Earthquakes happen because of
transform boundaries sliding past eachother
How do you make underwater volvanoes
What comes out of earth's volcanoes
Lava
The biggest fault in California
What is the San Andreas Fault
Transform boundaries create this
What is earthquakes
Divergent plate boundaries create this
What is island arcs or underwater volcanoes
cracks in the earth where plates slide against one another
What is a fault
When a plate slides under another
What is subduction, also know as convergent
Name the two different types of crust
What is oceanic and continental
A continental plate converging with a continental plate creates this
What is a mountain
What do oceanic to oceanic convergent plate boundaries create?
Underwater volcanoes and Islands
What are the some of the largest mountains created be convergent plate boundaries?
What are the Himalayas
What do continental to continental plate boundaries create?
mountains
What do oceanic to continental convergent plate boundaries create?
What is volcanoes on land and trenches in the ocean