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Earth's Layers
Convergent Plate Boundaries
Plate Boundaries
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100
A number of rigid, but moving pieces on Earth's surface are called:
What is tectonic plates.
100
The Himalayan mountains are the result of a ____________ ________________ plate boundary.
What is Convergent - Collision.
100
The location of the youngest rocks on the seafloor are found at:
What is mid-ocean ridges.
100
The San Andreas fault in California is this type of plate boundary.
What is Transform.
100
All the continents were once joined together. This "supercontinent" is referred to as?
What is Pangaea.
200
The rigid layer where the plates are located:
What is lithosphere.
200
There are two types of convergent boundaries ____________ and ____________.
What is subduction and collision.
200
This erupts through the valley of the mid-ocean ridge.
What is swag
200
Two continental plates (similar density) colliding will cause these to form.
What are (folded) mountains.
200
________ ______________ states that the Earth is broken into plates that move due to convection currents into the mantle.
What is plate tectonics.
300
Name the types of crust.
What is oceanic crust and continental crust.
300
Andes Mountains are an example of a Convergent-Subduction when a(n) _____________ plate and a(n) _____________ plate meet.
What is oceanic and continental.
300
Boundary where plates move apart.
What is divergent.
300
Caribbean and Aleutian Islands are formed when a(n) ___________ plate meets a(n) _____________ plate.
What is oceanic and oceanic.
300
The driving force behind plate movements
What is convection currents.
400
The plastic-like layer that the lithosphere moves on
What is asthenosphere.
400
Boundary where plates with different densities collide and the denser plate sinks under the less dense plate.
What is convergent subduction.
400
A mid-ocean ridge is an example of a __________ ______________.
What is divergent boundary.
400
The type of valley left when plates diverge.
What are rifts.
400
Evidence such as the continents' puzzle like fit and similar ___________ were found on different continents.
What is fossils.
500
Oceanic Crust is ______ dense than Continental Crust.
What is more.
500
Converge means:
What is collide or come together.
500
______________ boundary is when two plates slide past each other.
What is Transform.
500
_______________ are a result from the build up of stress at a Transform Plate Boundary.
What is Earthquakes.
500
Scientist who came up with the hypothesis of continental drift
What is Alfred Wegener.