Types of Boundaries
Place where two different plates make contact
What is Plate Boundary?
A place where two tectonic plates slide past each other
What is Transform Boundary?
What is Pangea?
When a material has atoms that are packed in very tightly
What is high density?
Name the two different types of crust
What is continental or oceanic crust?
What is: Continental-Continental Boundary
This type of boundary creates valleys on land and new ocean crust on sea floors.
What is Divergent Boundary?
What is Fossil Evidence?
A material that begins to heat up has a lower ______.
What is density?
What is continental crust?
The crust of the Earth is divided into these LARGE sections
What is tectonic plates?
Two tectonic plates moving towards each other and colliding.
What is Convergent Boundary?
These two continents look like puzzle pieces that once fit together.
Give an example of thermal convection.
What is: boiling water, lava lamp, movement in the mantle or hot air balloon?
When the seafloor spreads it causes this to form
What is: volcanoes or a new/fresh seafloor?
This happens when there is a lot of movement in the tectonic plates.
What is an Earthquake?
This is a transform boundary in California that a lot of people worry about.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
Name the scientist who is responsible for this theory.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The bubbles in boiling water rise because of this.
The collision between these two boundaries create volcanoes and islands.
What is Oceanic-Oceanic Boundary?
The collision between these two forms ocean trenches.
What is Continental-Oceanic Boundary
What is how did such large plates move?
What is the outer core?
This is how old ocean seafloor gets recycled.
What is subduction?