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plates part 2
plates
Question | Answer |
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Which plate boundary will you find these types of land formations: mountains, trenches, volcanoes, and island arcs? | convergent boundary |
Which plate boundary will you find these types of land formations: Rift valleys and mid-ocean ridges | divergent boundary |
Which plate boundary will you ONLY find earthquakes formed? | transform boundary |
A subduction zone is where two plates do what? | Collide and one (the more dense plate) sinks down underneath the other |
What drives plate tectonics? | Convection Currents |
What are the 3 plate boundaries? | divergent, convergent, and transform |
What is the name of the supermassive continent that formed 335 million years ago | Pangea |
What 2 factors increase that farther into Earth's interior you go? | Temperature and Pressure |
What type of rock makes up the oceanic crust? | Basalt |
What type of rock makes up the continental crust? | Granite |
Which is thicker: continental or oceanic crust? | continental crust |
What are the 3 layers of the mantle IN ORDER? | Lithosphere, asthenosphere, and the mesosphere |