Tectonic Plates 1
In this type of boundary, plates are moving towards each other.
Convergent boundaries
In this type of plate boundary, plates are moving apart
Divergent boundaries
The thinnest part of the earth.
Crust
In this type of boundary, plates slide against each other
Transform or Translation boundaries
What is the name of the theory that states the earth's crust is made of large sections moving over the mantle.
Plate Tectonics
This is where tectonic plates interact.
Boundaries
What lies directly beneath the crust
Mantle
What is the liquid part of the earth called
Outer core
What is the most inner layer of the earth
Inner Core
Why does oceanic crust subduct beneath continental crust?
It is more dense
This is what magma becomes when it cools down.
igneous rock
The mantle moves around because of what?
Convection Current
Who first proposed the moving of the continents?
Wegener
What oozes out of the earth when plates diverge?
Magma
The biggest fault in California is called _____
San Andreas Fault
Transform boundaries usually create this
Earthquakes
Divergent plate boundaries create this
Oceanic trench or underwater volcanoes
What do we call cracks in the earth where plates slide against one another?
fault
When a plate slides under another
Subduction
Name the two different types of crust
oceanic and continental
A continental plate converging with a continental plate creates this
Mountain Range
This is what oceanic to oceanic convergent plate boundaries create.
Island arc
What are the some of the largest mountains created be convergent plate boundaries?
Himalayas
What do continental to continental plate boundaries create?
mountains
This can happen at all boundries.
Earthquakes