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What is a convergent boundary?
Places where plates crash or crunch together?
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What is divergent boundaries?
Places where plates are coming apart are called
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What is What is transform boundary?
Places where plates slide past each other.
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Who is Alfred Wegner?
This meteorologist was considered the father of the continental drift theory in the beginning of the 20th century.
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What is a destructive plate boundary?
Convergent plates are also known as?
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What is The Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
What is a good example of a divergent boundary?
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What is the ocean floor?
This place is where most transform boundaries are found.
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What is the Atlantic Ocean?
It took only 150 million years for a slight fracture in an ancient continent to turn into this body of water today.
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What is an earthquake and volcano?
As an outcome of force, abrasion, and plate material dissolving in the mantle, what are the consequences of convergent boundaries?
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What is 30 and 50 kms across?
Divergent boundaries are capable of crossing both land and ocean. Typically, they are somewhere between
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What is most famous transform boundary in the world?
The San Andreas fault.
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What is marine geology?
This was developed after the war, which led to the discovery of the subduction process under the continental margins.
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What is a Continental collision
When two plates move towards one another, they form either a subduction zone or?
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What is the asthenosphere?
As the plates separate along the boundary, the block between the faults cracks and drops down into the soft, plastic interior, called
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What is the sliding motion?
Earthquakes are caused by these.
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What is the Krakatau Volcano?
In 1883 an eruption in Indonesia killed 37,000 people.
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What is a trench?
The edge of the continental plate in the drawing has folded into a huge mountain range, while the edge of the oceanic plate has bent downward and dug deep into the Earth.
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What is 2 centimeters per year.
Plate separation is a slow process. Divergence along the Mid Atlantic ridge causes the Atlantic Ocean to widen at?
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What is transform boundary feature that is marked?
Stream beds that have been split in half and the two halves have moved in opposite directions.
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What is the lithosphere?
The theory states that Earth's outermost layer is broken into 7 large, rigid pieces called plates: the African, North American, South American, Eurasian, Australian, Antarctic, and Pacific plates.
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