Plate Tectonics Basics
What are the large pieces of Earth’s lithosphere called?
What are tectonic plates?
What happens to tectonic plates at a convergent boundary?
What is they move toward each other?
What happens to tectonic plates at a divergent boundary?
What is they move apart?
What happens to tectonic plates at a transform boundary?
What is they slide past each other?
Which type of plate boundary causes the most frequent and intense earthquakes?
What is a transform boundary?
What layer of the Earth do tectonic plates float on?
What is the mantle?
What major geological feature forms when two continental plates collide?
What are mountains?
What geological feature forms on the seafloor at a divergent boundary?
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
What major geological event is common at transform boundaries?
What are earthquakes?
What type of plate boundary is responsible for forming volcanic island arcs?
What is a convergent boundary?
What causes tectonic plates to move?
What are convection currents in the mantle?
What is the term for when one plate sinks under another at a convergent boundary?
What is subduction?
What is the process of new crust forming at a divergent boundary called?
What is seafloor spreading?
What is a well-known example of a transform boundary in the United States?
What is the San Andreas Fault?
At what type of boundary does a rift valley form?
What is a divergent boundary?
What is the name of the supercontinent that existed about 200 million years ago?
What is Pangaea?
Name a famous mountain range formed by the collision of two continental plates.
What are the Himalayas?
What is a real-world example of a divergent boundary?
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
Why don’t volcanoes typically form at transform boundaries?
What is there is no subduction or magma formation?
What happens when an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide?
What is the oceanic plate subducts under the continental plate?
How does the theory of plate tectonics explain the distribution of fossils across continents?
What is the movement of plates spreading fossils across different continents?
How do convergent boundaries cause volcanic eruptions?
What is subduction causes melting of the mantle, leading to magma formation?
How do divergent boundaries contribute to earthquakes?
What is the movement of plates creating stress and fractures in the crust?
What is the term for the crack in the Earth's crust at a transform boundary?
What is a fault?
How do plate tectonics explain the Ring of Fire?
What is subduction zones around the Pacific Ocean create volcanoes and earthquakes?