Warm-up/review: Plate Boundaries

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What type of volcanoes would you experience at a convergent plate boundary with two continental plates?

Back

No Volcanoes

Front

What is the rocky or rigid outer part of Earth consisting of the brittle crust and the top part of the upper mantle?

Back

Lithosphere

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What is the source of energy that drives plate movement?

Back

Convection currents in the asthenosphere

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What type of volcanism would you experience at mid ocean ridges/divergent plate boundaries?

Back

Volcanic fissures

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What geologic feature/event is most likely to occur at a transform boundary?

Back

Earthquakes

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What are the three main types of plate boundaries?

Back

Convergent, Divergent, Transform

Front

What happens at a convergent plate boundary?

Back

Plates move towards each other, leading to subduction or mountain formation.

Front

What geological feature is commonly formed at divergent plate boundaries?

Back

Mid-ocean ridges.

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What is subduction?

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The process where one tectonic plate moves under another and is forced into the mantle.

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What type of plate boundary is characterized by sliding past each other?

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Transform boundary.