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Plate Tectonics 1
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What causes the movement of Tectonic Plates?
Convection currents in the Mantle
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What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?
Atmosphere
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What is the core mostly made out of?
Iron
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What do you call cracks that are made in the plates from all of the pushing and shoving?
Faults
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What type of plate boundary is Taiwan on?
Convergent Boundary
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What layer of Earth is made of mostly solid iron?
Inner Core
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What do you call the area where two tectonic plates meet?
Plate Boundary
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What happens when a continental plate converges with a continental plate?
Their densities are similar and result in both plates pushing upward into mountains
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What type of boundary is made when two tectonic plates collide?
Convergent
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What type of boundary is the African Rift Valley?
Divergent
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What layer do the tectonic plates float on?
Asthenosphere
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What is a boundary where two plates slide along each other?
Transform
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What is last earthquake wave to arrive?
The L or surface wave
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What type of fault has one part that slides DOWN lower than the other part?
Normal
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What type of fault has one part that moves UP higher than the other?
Thrust or Reverse
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What is used to measure the strength of earthquakes
seismograph
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What is used to measure the movement of tectonic plates? (double jeopardy, add or deduct twice.)
Global Positioning System (GPS)
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What hardens to form new rock at mid-ocean ridges?
Magma
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What type of fault usually occurs because of compression?
Reverse or Thrust
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What is the raising of a rock layer?
Uplift
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Who developed the theory of continental drift?
Alfred Wegner
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What did making a map of where earthquakes happened, show scientists?
The edges of the plate boundaries
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What is the theory that the earth's surface is broken up into large pieces that float on top of the asthenosphere?
The Plate Tectonic Theory
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The type of tectonic plate boundary that sometimes has a subduction zone is ______.
Convergent Boundary
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What is stress that stretches a rock layer?
tension