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Boundaries
Vocabulary
Earth
Convergent
Miscellaneous
100
Divergent, Convergent, and Transform Boundaries
What are the three different types of boundaries?
100
Pangea or Pangaea
What is another word used when the world was once a "super-continent"?
100
The crust
What is the thinnest layer of the Earth?
100
Continent vs. Continent Ocean vs. Ocean Continent vs. Ocean
What are the three different types of convergent boundaries?
100
OC- ocean CC- continent
What is the difference between continental and oceanic crust?
200
When two plates are moving away from each other
What is a Divergent Boundary?
200
The crust and part of the upper mantle
What does Lithosphere mean?
200
The mantle
What is the thickest layer of the Earth?
200
Collision
What happens when CC vs.CC collide? Subduction or Collision
200
The movement of the continents
What is continental drift?
300
When two plates are moving towards each other
What is a Convergent Boundary?
300
Hot Liquid rock
What does Asthenosphere mean?
300
Lithosphere
Which one goes on top, Lithosphere or Asthenosphere?
300
Subduction
What happens when OC vs.OC collide? Subduction or Collision?
300
Deep parts in the ocean
What are trenches?
400
When two plates are moving against eachother
What is a Transform Boundary?
400
Alfred Wegener
Who made the Pangea Inference
400
It makes up the small tectonic plates
Why is the Lithosphere and Asthenosphere important to plate tectonics?
400
Subduction
What happens when OC vs. OC collide? Subduction or collision?
400
The movement of the plates form mountains along the boundary
How do mountains form?
500
Convergent boundaries
Which boundary has three different types of them?
500
How magma is moving underground
What is Convection Currents?
500
Crust, Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Upper mantle and Core
What are the layers of the Earth, (top-bottom)?
500
OC- Bottom CC- Top
When CC vs. OC are colliding, Which one goes under and which goes on top?
500
OC vs. OC- Volcanic Islands CC vs. CC - Mountains OC vs. CC- Coastal Volcanoes
What are the three things that can happen during the Convergent Boundaries? Be specific.