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The names of the 3 different types of plate boundaries
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform
True or false: The Earth’s plates move around the planet’s surface at the rate of a few centimeters every year?
True
How many major and minor plate tectonics are in the world?
Earth has 7 major plate tectonic and 10 minor ones
True or false: Any type of rock can become any other type of rock.
True
The type of plates and boundaries that formed the Himalayas Mountains.
Convergent boundary
The type of plate and boundary where plates are moving away from each other
Divergent boundary
The type of plate and boundary that can create / cause earthquakes?
Transform boundary
The names of the 3 types of rocks
What are sedimentary, igneus and metamorphic
Metamorphic rocks form through these 2 things.
Heat and pressure
The molten rock found below the Earth's surface.
Magma
What is the molten rock layer of the earth what is made of magma?
Mantle
The typical length of time it takes a rock to go through the entire rock cycle.
Is about 20 Million years
Divergent plate boundaries creates.....
Mid-Atlantic ridge
Mention at least 3 of the 5 applications on the use of the plate tectonics
Earthquake Prediction, Volcanic Activity, Resource Exploration, Infraestructure Planning and Climate Change Studies
Are like slabs on the surface of the Earth’s shell or lithosphere.
Plate tectonics
The study of rocks, their history and the processes that form and change them.
Geology