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Plate Tectonics (Geography)
Plate Tectonics (Geography)
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What is NOT a result of plate tectonics?
Mountain ranges
Earth's seasons
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
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The movement of two (2) oceanic plates away from each other is called what?
Convergence
Lateral Slipping
Divergence
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What is the main phenomenon that results from lateral slipping?
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Mountain Ranges
Mid-Ocean Ridge
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Continental drift is...
A style of food
Gradual movement of continents across the Earth's surface
When plates collide
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Earth is divided into roughly how many pieces?
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45
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12
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Which type of our planet's crust is thicker?
Continental
Oceanic
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Oceanic crust's major component is?
igneous rock
Water
Basalt
Granite
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What was Laurasia?
Supercontinent that included Asia, Europe, and North America
The person who first thought of continental drift
Name of plates seperating
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How where the Himalayas formed?
Continental plate colliding with another continental plate
Spreading of two (2) plates
Oceanic plate colliding with a continental plate
Subduction
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What is the area called when oceanic crust is forced under the denser continental crust?
Subduction
Upduction
Construction
Induction
