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Vocabulary
Plate Boundaries
Landforms and Processes
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
100
Sections of the lithosphere are broken into pieces called
What are Plates
100
Type of boundary where two plates come together or collide.
What is a convergent boundary.
100
When plates slip past each other at a transform boundary this event occurs.
What is an earthquake.
100
What forces causes the plates to move?
What are convection currents in the mantle.
200
The theory that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in slow, constant motion.
What is the theory of Plate Tectonics
200
Type of boundary where two plates slip past each other in opposite directions.
What is a transform boundary.
200
Island volcanoes are formed at what type of boundary?
What is oceanic to oceanic convergent boundary?
200
How far do plates move in a year?
What is 1 to 10cm
200
What are the two types of crust?
What are oceanic and continental.
300
A well-tested concept that explains a wide range of observations.
What is a scientific theory.
300
Boundary where two plates pull apart from each other.
What is a divergent boundary.
300
The mid-ocean ridge occurs at what type of boundary?
What is a divergent boundary.
300
Where does subduction occur?
What are deep ocean trenches.
300
Theory that all continents were once together and drifted apart.
What is Continental Drift.
400
Breaks in earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other.
What are Faults
400
When two plates collide what determines what plate will stay on top?
What is density.
400
A landform that forms when two continents divide?
What is a rift valley.
400
What happens to crust when it is pulled into the asthenosphere?
What is melting
400
The type of boundary that occurs least frequently on earth.
What is a transform boundary.
500
A deep valley formed on land when two continental plates move apart.
What is Rift Valley
500
The most dense type of lithospheric plate.
What is oceanic plate.
500
Coastal volcanoes form at that type of plate boundary?
What is a continental to oceanic convergent boundary.
500
What type of plate boundary formed the Himalayan mountains?
What is a continental to continental convergent boundary.
500
Name of a specific rift valley in Africa.
What is the Great Rift Valley.