Quickcheck on Convergent Boundaries

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What geological feature is created at an oceanic-continental convergent boundary?

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Volcanic mountains.

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What happens at convergent boundaries?

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Plates are colliding or smashing into each other.

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What causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

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Convection currents in the mantle.

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Identify Plate F: What plate is it if it is the African Plate?

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African Plate.

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What geological feature is created at a continental-continental convergent boundary?

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Mountains.

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What is a convergent boundary?

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A place where two tectonic plates move towards each other.

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What is the result of two oceanic plates converging?

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Volcanic islands.

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What is subduction?

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The process where one tectonic plate moves under another plate.

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What is the role of convection currents in the mantle?

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They drive the movement of tectonic plates.

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What is the difference between oceanic and continental plates?

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Oceanic plates are denser and thinner than continental plates.