Plate Tectonics

What causes plate tectonics to operate? What moves the plates?

There can be chemical and physical changes in Earth’s materials and living organisms.

A "ridge formation" is created at which plate boundary?

Which type of plate boundary created the Himalayas?

Through evaporation & purification a solid with a geometrically repeating form can be formed.

At a transform boundary, the plates are able to become “unstuck." As they do, they produce a???

T or F: Crust is destroyed at a subduction zone.

Rock is broken down into smaller and smaller pieces due to natural phenomena.

Which "Earth layer" is closer to the mantle?

Which term best describes, "By manipulating heat/ pressure, a solid can become a liquid."

What 2 things can be found in-between a Divergent Plate Boundary?

Which term best describes, "Changing shape due to applied pressure."

What happens to the magma in a convection cell as it reaches the lithosphere & begins to cool?

Which two plates are a real life example of a continental-continental collision plate boundary?

Which type of plate boundary is this?

Which type of plate boundary forms new crust for the Earth?

Where do "hot spots" occur?

What word best describes the deep area where two plates meet at a subduction zone?

Energy can not be cycled from earth’s surface to it’s core and back to its surface again.

Which two tectonic plates formed the Himalayan Mountains?

Which plate boundary neither creates nor destroys crust??

Which earth system is responsible for the Hawaiian Islands?

What is the primary effect/product of a subduction zone?

True or False: The earth's surface has always looked the same (w/o human activity).