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Science Plates And Boundaries
Science Plates And Boundaries
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8th Grade Earth Science
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What is a Rift Valley?
A spot where oceanic crust sinks beneath Continental crust.
A spot where lots of volcanos lie
A mountain Range
A valley Caused by Divergent plates moving apart.
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What is a Tsunami?
A sudden shift in the crust that causes a huge wave.
A wave created by flowing lava.
A Landform that is a trench.
A japanese Water bottle.
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What is a Fault?
A Valley
A break in the earths crust where rocks slip past each other
Subduction between continental and continental crust.
Oceanic crust
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What plate boundary usually causes mountains to form?
Divergent
Covergent
Transform
Volcanos
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What Caused Continental Drift?
Convection Currents.
The Sun
Conduction Currents
Radiation
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What type of fault is the San Andreas fault?
Divergent
Transform
Hanging Wall
Strike Slip
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What is a Deep ocean Trench?
A earthquake.
A divergent boundary that pulls a part and creates a trench
A war front underwater
A piece of oceanic crust that explodes.
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What is the Mountain range that is in india and nepal?
Himalayan
Chilean
Appalacian
Mt Everest
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What is a Hot Spot?
A break in the earths crust.
Where a valley is created.
An Area where magma from in the mantle melts to the surface.
A spot where new oceanic crust is formed.
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What is Sea Floor Spreading?
When an underwater mountain range is created.
When Oceanic crust subducts under the continental crust.
When Sea Floor is being destructed.
The Spreading and Creation of new sea Floor
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What Are the three types of boundaries?
Deo, Transform, Optimus
Divergent, Insurgent, Alleigent
RIght, Left, Up
Divergent, Convergent, Transform
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What is the Asthenosphere?
A jello like part of the mantle with convection currents
A old spaceship
Where the inner core is
The whole mantle
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What is a Super Volcano?
A vocano that has super powers.
A Volcano that when it erupts will cover the world with ash.
A volcano that forms underwater.
A volcano that never stops erupting.
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Which plates rub against each other. Like at the San Andreas Fault?
Transform
Allegiant
Covergent
Divergent
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How can we tell where earths boundaries are?
Where you see the most landforms.
From the placement of volcanoes and earthquakes.
From seismographs seismographs
Where all of the geese migrate to.
