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Interpreting Maps - Plate Tectonics
Interpreting Maps - Plate Tectonics
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BONUS QUESTION! Who was the scientist who first came up with the theory of Plate Tectonics?
George Washington
Sir Isaac Newton
Alfred Wegener
Johnny Cash
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A boundary in which the two plates move apart, creating trenches.
Transform Boundary
Convergent Boundary
Divergent Boundary
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Sudden violent shaking of the Earth caused by a shifting of the Earth's crust.
Volcano
Fault
Earthquake
Plates
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A boundary in which the two plates crash into eachother, creating mountain ranges.
Transform Boundary
Divergent Boundary
Convergent Boundary
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A boundary in which the two plates slide along each other, creating the landform, the San Andreas Fault in California.
Convergent Boundary
Transform Boundary
Divergent Boundary
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75% of all volcanoes occur along the Ring of Fire.
False
True
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Large crack in the Earth's surface where earthquakes usually occur.
Plates
Fault
Volcano
Earthquake
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Sheets of rock that make up the Earth's outer crust.
Earthquake
Plates
Fault
Volcano
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Volcanoes happen randomly, and have nothing to do with plate tectonics.
True
False
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Idea that Earth's outer layer, called the crust, is made up of large moving parts.
Plates
Plate Tectonics
Earthquake
Fault
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Sudden violent shaking of the Earth caused by a shifting of the Earth's crust.
Earthquake
Fault
Volcano
Plate Tectonics