Plate Tectonics

What does converging mean?

• Moving Away

• Colliding together

• Flying to space

• Sliding past each other

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What is formed when continental (land) crust converges (collides) with continental (land) crust? Draw it below!

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Why does subduction happen?

• Because it just does

• Because one plate is more dense

• Because the plates do what they want

• Because the plates collide

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What is the result of subduction?

• Only mountains

• Mountains and a volcano on the continental (land) side

• Nothing

• Earthquakes

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What type of boundary is this?

• Transform

• Divergent

• Convergent

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Sea-floor spreading and rift valleys go along with which boundary?

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Transform

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What is created from a mid-ocean ridge?

• More land

• Fish

• Mountains

• Never ending lava

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What do the arrows for a divergent boundary look like? Draw them!

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What's happening at a divergent boundary?

• The plates are moving away from each other

• The plates are colliding

• The plates are eating tacos