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Geography plates
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the levels of the earth | Core, mantle, crust |
| What is the names of the major plates | Pacific, North American, Eurasian, African, Antarctic, Indo-Australian, and South American plates |
| What is a convection current | heat from the Earth's core causes hot, less-dense magma to rise, spread out, and cool, becoming denser as it does so. This cooler, denser material then sinks back down, completing the cycle and driving the movement of tectonic plates. |
| What are the different types of plates? | types of plate boundaries are divergent, convergent, and transform, |