Types of Plates
What type of plate boundary pulls apart from one other?
Divergent Boundary
What occurs at fault lines?
Earthquakes
What lies beneath Earth's crust?
Mantle
What are the moving plates on Earth called?
Tectonic Plates
What type of boundary crashes into each other?
Convergent Boundary
What is made at divergent boundaries in the ocean?
Mid-Ocean Ridge
The upper mantle and crust make up what part of Earth's layers?
Lithosphere
Is oceanic crust more dense or less dense that continental crust?
More Dense
What type of boundary slides past each other?
Transform Boundary
What is made at a continental-continental convergent boundary?
Mountians
What layer in Earth lies directly below the Lithoshpere?
Asthenoshpere
When one plate goes under another, what is that area called?
Subduction Zone
What type of boundary makes new sea floor?
Divergent Boundary
What is made at a continental-oceanic convergent boundary?
Trench
Melted rocks underneath Earth's surface is called what?
Magma
What is movement of Earth's plates called?
Plate Tectonics
What type of boundary causes earthquakes?
Transform Boundary
What is made at a convergent boundary besides mountains?
Volcanos
What fuels the tectonic plate movement?
Convection Currents
What was the mass of land called that split apart and made the modern day continents?
Pangea