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The Plates
Plate Boundaries
Continental Drift Theory
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
100
The plate that contains North America.
What is the North American Plate?
100
Mountains are formed at these plate boundaries.
What are convergent plates?
100
Created the Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
100
Earthquakes and Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these.
What is a plate boundary?
100
The Himalayan mountains are the result of a ___________________________ boundary.
What is convergent boundary?
200
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface
What are tectonic plates?
200
These type of arrows represent convergent plates.
What are arrows that point toward each other?
200
Ever since Pangea broke apart, the continents have been ________________.
What is constantly moving?
200
A mid ocean ridge occurs at this type of boundary.
What is divergent boundary?
200
True or False: The plates have stopped moving some years and started back up.
What is false? The plates are constantly moving.
300
The plates move upon this layer of the earth.
What is the asthenosphere?
300
These types of plates move away from each other.
What are divergent plates?
300
The force that moves the tectonic plates.
What is convection currents?
300
Name four of the major plates
What is any of the following North American plate, South American plate, Eurasian Plate, Indoaustralia plate, African plate, Antarctica plate
300
_________________ are a result from a release of energy at a plate boundaries.
What are earthquakes?
400
The continents of Europe and Asia are atop this plate?
What is the Eurasian Plate?
400
Diverging plates can cause these landforms.
What are volcanoes, mid ocean ridges and basins?
400
The rumble felt when plates shift and energy is released.
What is an earthquake?
400
This causes the plates to move.
What is convection cycles in the mantle?
400
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of a ____________________ boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
500
The Ring of Fire surrounds this plate.
What is the Pacific Plate?
500
The boundaries under major mountain ranges on our continents are most likely this type.
What is a convergent boundary?
500
I am making a list of minor plates. Which one does not belong? Philippines Arabian North American Cocos
What is North American?
500
Act out our chant of the types of boundaries. Hint: Convergent/Collide
What is convergent/collide, divergent/divide, transform/slide?
500
Australia is located on which major plate?
What is the Indo-Australian Plate?