Plate Tectonics/Plate Boundaries

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What is another name for a strike slip fault?

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Transform boundary.

Front

Mountains are formed at which type of plate boundary?

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Convergent plate boundaries.

Front

What do we call two tectonic plates that move away from each other?

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Divergent plates.

Front

What do convection currents in the mantle do?

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They drive the movement of tectonic plates.

Front

In a demonstration of plate tectonics, what do wood blocks represent?

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Lithospheric (tectonic) plates.

Front

What type of boundary occurs when two plates collide?

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Convergent boundary.

Front

What is the process called when one tectonic plate is forced under another?

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Subduction.

Front

What type of boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other?

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Transform boundary.

Front

What is the Earth's outer layer called?

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The lithosphere.

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What is the layer of the Earth beneath the lithosphere?

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The asthenosphere.