Vocabulary
Maps
Geologic Events
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
100
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's outer layer.
What are tectonic plates?
100
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What is the African Plate?
100
The most common geologic event for all the types of plate boundaries
What are earthquakes?
100
Earthquakes and volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
What are plate boundaries?
100
The area around the Pacific Ocean where 75% of the active volcanoes are found.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
The location where two plates slide past each other in opposite directions.
What is a transform boundary?
200
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What is the North American Plate?
200
This type of boundary is where we see mountain ranges form.
What is a convergent boundary?
200
The Himalayan mountains are the result of this type of boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
200
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of this type of boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
300
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea and now drifting apart
What is the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
300
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What is the Australian Plate?
300
This type of boundary is where we see mid-ocean ridges form
What is a divergent boundary?
300
The Earth's crust is neither created nor destroyed in this type of boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
300
The scientist who created the Theory of Plate Tectonics
Who is Alfred Wegener?
400
The concept that the youngest rocks are found at divergent boundaries along the ocean floor and move away from the ridge as they get older.
What is seafloor spreading?
400
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What is the Philippine Plate?
400
Cracks in the Earth's surface near transform boundaries are also known as this
What are fault lines?
400
The mechanism that causes the plates to move
What are convection currents?
400
The plates are still moving by this amount per year
What is a few centimeters?
500
A change to the structure of the Earth by tectonic activities
What is a geologic event?
500
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What is the Nazca Plate?
500
Islands that are not along boundaries, such as Hawaii, are usually made due to this
What is a hot spot?
500
This type of crust is more likely to go through subduction.
What is oceanic crust?
500
One of the two pieces of evidence used to prove the existence of tectonic plates
(Choose one) What are fossils or puzzle-like continents?