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Stress/Land Formations
More with Plate Tectonics
100

When plate tectonics move towards each other and collide

What is convergent boundary

100

The 3 types of stress relating to the movement of plate tectonics 

What is compression, tension, & shear stress

100

Type of plate boundary associated with compression 

What is convergent boundaries 

100

Feature(s) associated with convergent boundaries

What is folded mountains, volcanoes, and ocean trenches.

200

When plate tectonics move away from each other

What is divergent boundary

200

Type of plate would you find thinner, denser rock

What is oceanic plate

200

Type of stress associated with transform boundaries

What is shear stress

200

Feature(s) associated with divergent boundaries 

What is fault-block mountains & rifts

300

When two plates move past each other in opposite directions

What is transform boundary 

300

Type of stress present at divergent boundaries

What is tension 

300

The plate that subducts in oceanic-oceanic convergence 

What is the denser plate

300

Feature(s) associated with transform boundaries

What is earthquakes and the offset of mid-ocean ridges
400

A block of the lithosphere that consists of the crust and the outermost part of the mantle.

What is tectonic plate

400

folded mountain belts sometimes form at convergent plate boundaries because rock is compressed and pushed upwards (true or false?)

What is true

400

With convergent boundaries, the plate that subducts when a continental plate and oceanic plate collide 

What is the oceanic plate (because it is denser)

400

A solid layer of Earth made of weak, slow-flowing rock

What is the asthenosphere

500

The bending, tilting and breaking of rock.

What is deformation

500

Can cause a chain of volcanic islands to form far from plate boundaries

What is hot spots

500

Fault-block mountains form when one block of rock is thrust over another block of rock (True or false?)

What is true 

500

Device that bounces sound waves off underwater objects.

What is a sonar