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In this type of boundary, plates are moving towards each other.
What are convergent plate boundaries
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In this type of plate boundary, plates are moving apart
What are divergent plate boundaries
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What is the thinnest part of the earth?
What is the crust
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In this type of boundary, plates slide against each other
What is transform plate boundaries
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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
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Where do tectonic plates interact?
What is boundaries
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What lies directly beneath the crust
What is the mantle
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What is the liquid part of the earth called
What is outer core
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What is the most inner layer of the earth
What is the core
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Why does oceanic crust subduct beneath continental crust?

What is- It is less dense (lighter)

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What happen to magma when it cools down?
What is- it becomes a solid
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Where do convection currents occurs?
What is the mantle
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What causes the plates to move?
What is convection currents in the mantle
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What oozes out of the earth when plates diverge?
What is magma
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The name given to volcanoes and earthquakes around the Pacific Ocean

What is the Ring of Fire

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Transform boundaries create this
What is earthquakes
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Divergent plate boundaries create this
What is island arcs or underwater volcanoes
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cracks in the earth where plates slide against one another
What is a fault
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When a plate slides under another
What is subduction
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Name the two different types of crust
What is oceanic and continental
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A continental plate converging with a continental plate creates this
What is a mountain
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What do oceanic to oceanic convergent plate boundaries create?
What is an island arc
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What are the some of the largest mountains created be convergent plate boundaries?
What are the Himalayas
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What do continental to continental plate boundaries create?
mountains
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What do oceanic to continental convergent plate boundaries create?
What is volcanoes on land and trenches in the ocean