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A large supercontinent.
What is Pangea?
Pieces of the Earth's crust that shift and form mountains.
What are tectonic plates?
Convergent, Divergent, Transform.
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
DAILY DOUBLE! 1 OUT OF 2.
A massive, continental collision between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
How were the Himalayas formed?
Usually under continents and oceans.
Where are tectonic plates found?
They are created when two continental plates collide.
How are mountains made?
TRUE OR FALSE: Plates can carry both continental and oceanic crust.
True, most plates consist of both
TWISTED AROUND: If you see a deep-sea trench next to a volcanic mountain range, which type of plate boundary is likely present?
A convergent boundary
The tallest mountain in the world.
What is Mt. Everest?
Plates move away from each other, creating gaps between. Boiling magma shoots up from the gaps and cools to form land.
What are divergent boundaries?
Weird-shaped rock slabs that cover the outer shell. They slide atop the upper mantle area at a rate of 1–15 cm per year, causing land formation.
What are tectonic plates?
TRUE OR FALSE: Earthquakes can happen at any type of plate boundary.
True.
The biggest mountain range is shaped by tectonic plates.
What is the Himalayan Mountain Range?
A plate sliding past another, causing weak earthquakes and other land 'disasters'.
What is a transform boundary?
DAILY DOUBLE! 2 OUT OF 2
Situated at the intersection of the Nazca and Cocos plates.
What are Galápagos Islands, Ecuador?
When one plate sinks below another.
What is a subduction zone?
Created by the Nazca plate subducting under the South American plate, resulting in a long chain of volcanoes.
What are the Andes Mountains, South America?
Two plates collide, leading to intense aftermaths like volcanoes, followed by earthquakes.
What is a convergent boundary?
TWISTED AROUND: What evidence supports the theory that tectonic plates are real?
Continental coastlines fit together like puzzle pieces, identical fossil remains found on separated continents, and matching geological formations across oceans.
A flat dish, typically made of china.
What is the meaning of dinner plates?