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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 boundaries

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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 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
200

This is where tectonic plates interact.

What are 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
200
What is the most inner layer of the earth
What is the core
200

Why does oceanic crust subduct beneath continental crust?

What is- It is more dense

300

This is what happens to magma when it cools down.

What is- it becomes a solid igneous rock?

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This is where convection currents occur.

What is the mantle?

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What causes the plates to move?
What is convection currents in the mantle
300
What oozes out of the earth when plates diverge?
What is magma
300
The biggest fault in California
What is the San Andreas Fault
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Transform boundaries create this

What are earthquakes?

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Divergent plate boundaries create this

What are new oceanic crust or underwater volcanoes

400
cracks in the earth where plates slide against one another
What is a fault
400
When a plate slides under another
What is subduction
400
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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This is what 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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This can happen at all boundries.

What are earthquakes?