Plate Tectonics

Here volcanoes are on the edges of continents or island chains encircling the Pacific Ocean.

Look at the picture "Plate Tectonic Features". What is number six?

When two continental plates collide __________ will usually form.

What is number four?

What is number three?

When oceanic plates collide with continental plates a _______ will form on the oceanic plate.

Look at the picture "Plate Tectonic Features". What kind of boundary is number one?

What plate is number ten?

What plate is number two?

What is number seven?

__________ can be created or grow wider where plates diverge or pull apart.

Which of these landforms would MOST likely be found at a divergent boundary?

Look at the picture "Plate Tectonic Features". What kind of crust is number five?

At a _______ plate boundary new crust is created as 2 or more plates pull away from each other.

Movements within Earth's mantle that causes tectonic plates to move are called ____.

Transform boundaries (faults) cause __________.

A __________ boundary occurs when two tectonic plates collide into each other.

What plate is number six?

When oceanic plates collide, one of those plates will __________ (go beneath the other).

How many basic layers make up the Earth?

Which of these landforms is MOST likely to be found at a convergent boundary?

Scientists determine the depth of the ocean using an _______.

This occurs when a more dense plate goes under a less dense plate.

What type of rock makes up oceanic crust?

Look at the picture "Plate Tectonic Features".What kind of boundary is number four?

Depression of the seafloor caused by subduction of an oceanic plate under a continental plate.

Look at the picture "Plate Tectonic Features". What kind of boundary is number three?

The ________ is an example of a divergent boundary on land.

What is number six?

A __________ boundary occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other.

Which type of crust is denser?

What is number eight?

A __________ is a deep vertical fracture that extends down through the lithosphere.

What is number one?

What plate is number one?

What plate is number eleven?

When plates collide the plate that is __________ will subduct (go beneath the other).

In order for an idea to become a theory you have to have __________.

This caused the Ring of Fire to form in the Pacific Ocean.

What is number five?

What plate is number seven?

In the _____ , scientists determine the depth of the ocean.

What is number 2?

Areas where plates move toward each other and collide, causing uplift.

When an oceanic plate and a continent plate hit the ____ plate goes under the ____ plate.

The _____________ is an example of a divergent boundary under water.

It is believed convection currents in the _____ is responsible for the movement of the plates.

The _____ mtns. were formed from the collision of the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate.

The San Andreas Fault in California is a __________ plate boundary.