Plate Boundaries

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Tectonic plates

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Large moving pieces on Earth's surface that are made of rock.

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Asthenosphere

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The upper layer of the Earth's mantle, below the lithosphere.

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What is continental drift?

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Theory that all of earths continents were once joined together in a single, huge land mass and then started drifting away from each other.

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What type of plate boundary is illustrated in the Figure?

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convergent oceanic-continental boundary

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What kind of plate boundary is shown in this picture?

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a convergent boundary.

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What kind of plate boundary is shown here? Options: divergent, convergent, transform, subducting

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divergent

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What kind of plate boundary is shown here? Options: divergent, convergent, transform, submergent

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transform

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This type of Boundary results when plates separate

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Divergent

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This type of convergent boundary creates mountain Chains: Continental-Continental, Continental-Oceanic, Oceanic-Oceanic

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Continental-Continental

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What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a transform boundary? Options: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Mountains, Rift Valleys

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Earthquakes