Unit 3 Review

What are the 3 types of plate boundaries?

Type of boundary causing plates shift/spread apart from each other

What causes a tsunami?

How does the oceanic plate interact with the continental plate at a convergent boundary?

What is one reason mountains can decrease in size?

The ring of fire is a ring of volcanoes and earthquakes that occur along?

What occurs if a mountain's uplift rate is higher than its erosion rate?

What causes rocks to transform as they move deeper beneath the surface?

What is the outer layer of the earth called?

When two plates seperate...

How does the rock deep beneath the ocean floor differ from the rock deep beneath continents?

This is what causes plates to move?

When two continental plates pull apart a _______ forms?

The himalayan mountains are formed because what kind of boundary?

What occurs when two continental plates collide?

Volcanoes most like occur along which type of boundary?

What happens when two tectonic plates move apart?

What evidence confirms the theory of plate tectonics?

Which layer of this volcano is the oldest?

Ocean crust is _____ than continental crust

The mid ocean ridge occurs along what plate boundary?

What causes earthquakes to happen near mountain ranges?

The largest and most active earthquakes lie along...

Contimental crust is _____ that oceanic crust

What causes tectonic plates to move?

How do scientists study fossils to understand the movement of Earth's crust over time?

What occurs at the boundary where two tectonic plates move past each other?

When two plates collide...

The place where two plates are pulled apart?

The place where two plates collide?

When two plates slide past eachother...

What is the thick liquid that flows out of the volcanoes called?

Why do volcanoes occur at plate boundaries?

How does a volcanic eruption, such as that of Mount Vireo, shows the cycling of Earth's materials?

What factors cause changes in mountain elevation and location over time?