Plate Boundaries
Earth's Layers
Landforms created by Plate Tectonics
Other Terms
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The thin ocean crust is subducted after the two crusts meet.
What is convergent (oceanic/continental)?
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The mostly solid part of Earth's interior.
What is The Mantle?
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The most extensive chain of mountains on earth and occurs along divergent plate boundaries.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
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A process in which tectonic plates, large slabs of Earth's lithosphere, split apart from each other.
What is sea-floor spreading?
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True or False? Continental Crust is the outermost layer of Earth's lithosphere.
What is True?
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Oceanic plates move away from each other which leads to sea-floor spreading.
What is divergent (oceanic)?
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The last layer of the earth and is made of solid iron and nickel.
What is the inner core?
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A low land region that forms when earths tectonic plates move apart and is a feature of divergent plate boundaries.
What is a rift valley?
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The downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle.
What is subduction?
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True or False? The Oceanic Crust is MORE dense than the Continental Crust.
What is True?
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One of the plates is pushed or subducted under the other.
What is convergent (oceanic/oceanic)?
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The outer most layer of earths lithosphere and is made of different types of granite.
What is continental crust?
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These are long chains with intense seismic activity which is found along oceanic-oceanic convergent plate boundaries.
What is volcanic island arc?
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Known as a seismic hazard zone.
What is earthquake prone area?
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Name the Divergent Boundary.
What is divergent oceanic?
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When two tectonic plates slide past each other?
What is transform?
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Describes the outermost shell of a planet.
What is The Crust?
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They typically form when one tectonic plate subducts under another and are a feature of convergent plate boundaries.
What is a deep-ocean trench?
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The process in which heat is transferred by movement of a heated fluid such as air or water.
What is convection?
800
Name the convergent boundary?
What is convergent continental-continental?
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When two plates converge they smash together and create mountains.
What is convergent (continental/continental)?
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Found under the oceans and formed at spreading centres and is also made of different types of basalts.
What is oceanic crust?
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A large natural elevation of the earth's surface and convergent plate boundaries form them.
What is a mountain?
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A hot fluid material within the earth's crust.
What is magma?
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Name the boundary?
What is transform?
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Two crusts moving away from each other which can result in a rift valley.
What is divergent (continental)?
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The second to last layer of the earth and made of liquid iron and nickel.
What is the outer core?
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A mountain that explodes a hot magma called lava whose activity displays both convergent and divergent plate boundaries.
What is a volcano?
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It is formed at oceanic spreading centers.
What is new crust being formed?
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True or False? The Oceanic Crust is made up of different types of granite and the continental crust is made of different types of basalt.
What is False?