Plate Boundaries

Front

How do mountains form?

Back

Two continental plates collide, and the land folds and crumples like paper.

Front

Why does the oceanic plate slide beneath the continental plate during a collision?

Back

The oceanic plate is denser causing it to slide beneath the less dense continental plate.

Front

This type of crust is thick, less dense, and made mostly of granite.

Back

continental crust

Front

This type of crust is thin, dense, and made of basalt.

Back

oceanic crust

Front

What type of plate boundary does not result in the formation of any new landforms? Options: transform fault, convergent boundary, divergent boundary

Back

transform fault

Front

When two plates separate at a divergent boundary it creates a _________________.

Back

ridge

Front

Hot, molten rock beneath Earth's crust is called

Back

magma

Front

What is true of tectonic plates?

Back

They are constantly moving

Front

Location of the mantle: Above the crust, Between the crust and the lithosphere, Between the crust and the core, Beneath the core

Back

Between the crust and the core

Front

What is the underlying force that drives plate tectonics?

Back

convection currents