Plate Boundaries
Fault Lines
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What is a Divergent Boundary?

Where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other.

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Reverse faults have the same structure as a normal fault, BUT...

They move in the opposite direction.

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What are the three types of Convergent Boundaries?

1. Ocean to continent

2. Ocean to ocean

3. Continent to Continent

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What are normal faults associated with?

Divergent Plate Boundaries.

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The San Andreas Fault Line is an example of...

A Transform Boundary

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What are Strike-Slip faults created by?

Shearing along Transform Boundaries.

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What geologic event happens at Transform Boundaries?

Earthquakes.

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What is a Fault?

A break in Earth's crust where slabs of crust slip past each other.

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What geologic features form at Convergent Boundaries?

Mountains, Volcanoes, and Trenches.

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What is a Footwall Block?

The rock material that lies below the fault plane.