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Plate Movement
Causes of Plate Movement
Plates Movement 2
Misc
100
How is a mountain range created
convergence of plates
100
Plates that move apart
Divergent
100
What do less dense materials do
Rise
100
What is made of crust and upper mantle
lithosphere
100
What is Pangea
A single super continent
200
What types of plates create rift valleys
Divergent plates
200
Plates that move together
Convergent
200
What do more dense materials do
They fall
200
What layer of Earth make up the plates
lithosphere
200
What can form when two oceanic plates collide
subduction zone, underwater volcano
300
What plate boundaries create the Mid Atlantic Ridge
Oceanic and oceanic
300
Plates that slide past each other
Strike slip or transform
300
What is the affect of heat on molecutes (3)
further apart, increase speed, less dense
300
What layer of Earth is where convection current occurs
Asthenosphere
300
What are created at subduction zones
Volcanos
400
What types of plate boundaries create subduciton zones
Oceanic and continental
400
Plates that create subduction zones
Convergent
400
What is the affect of cooling on molecules (3)
closer together, slower, more dense
400
What is the rising and falling of material due to different densities referred to
Convection Current
400
Where can the results of plate movement be seen
At the plate boundary
500
What types of plate boundaries diverge
oceanic and oceanic and continental and continental
500
Boundaries that can produce subduction zones
oceanic and oceanic or continental and oceanic
500
What causes plate movement
Convection Current
500
What are boundaries that produce mid atlantic ridges
Oceanic and oceanic
500
What tells us that the Earth's magnetic field has reversed itself several times
The alignment of iron bearing minerals