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What is thinner and more dense? Continental or Oceanic? Oceanic Plate
How is Igneous Rock formed? formed from hardened magma/lava
How is Sedimentary Rock formed? formed from layers of sediment hardening together due to pressure and long periods of time
How is Metamorphic Rock formed? formed when heat/pressure change existing rock into another kind of rock
What is a divergent plate boundary? The plates pull apart from each other and form new ocean floor
What is a convergent plate boundary? Two plates come two together and can cause earthquakes
What is a transformation plate boundary plates move along each other side to side
What are hotspots? Heat rises from the core causing mantle rock to melt into magma.
What can found can be found at a convergent plate boundary with subduction? Volcanoes,trenches, earthquakes in the subducting crust, earthquakes on the crust, and tsunamis.
What can found can be found at a convergent plate boundary without subduction? You can find a Mountain range. This usually happens when two plates run into each other
What can found can be found at a divergent plate boundary oceanic/oceanic plate Mid-ocean ridge, volcanic activity, new seafloor, and widening ocean basin.
What can found can be found at a divergent plate boundary continental/continental plate Rift valley, and Occasional volcanic activity.
What is another name for a divergent plate boundary. constructive boundary
What is another name for a convergent plate boundary. destructive boundary
What is another name for a transforming plate boundary. strike slip fault
What can found can be found at an oceanic plate with a hotspot Volcanoes which can form islands, which then form island chains as the plate moves across the hotspot
What can found can be found at a continent plate with a hotspot Volcanoes and Geysers. If you don’t see a chain of islands, then you will see a chain of volcanoes
What is the Ring of Fire? a pattern of earthquakes and volcanoes that surround the Pacific Ocean plate
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