Plate Tectonics

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What is the process that causes tectonic plates to move?

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Convection

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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Where does magma that erupts out of volcanoes come from?

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Melted oceanic crust

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What happens at a transform boundary?

Back

The plates slide past each other.

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What feature can be found along a divergent boundary?

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Mid-ocean ridge

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What type of boundary creates folded mountains?

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Continental-continental convergent

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

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What is a tectonic plate?

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A large slab of Earth's lithosphere that moves and interacts with other plates.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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What is subduction?

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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What is a divergent boundary?

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A tectonic boundary where two plates move away from each other.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Front

What is a convergent boundary?

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A tectonic boundary where two plates collide.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Front

What is a transform boundary?

Back

A tectonic boundary where two plates slide past each other horizontally.