Plate Tectonics Flashcard

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What are the locations where earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found?

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At plate boundaries.

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What type of boundary is the San Andreas Fault?

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Transform.

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What happens when one tectonic plate slides underneath another?

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The plate melts and the magma rises.

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True or False: Continental-Oceanic Collisions at Convergent Boundaries cause Volcanic Mountains to form.

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True.

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What type of plate boundary is associated with the formation of a continental rift valley?

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Divergent plate boundaries.

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What are the three main types of plate boundaries?

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Convergent, Divergent, and Transform.

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What geological feature is formed at convergent boundaries where an oceanic plate meets a continental plate?

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Volcanic mountains.

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What is the process called when two tectonic plates move away from each other?

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Divergence.

Front

What is the primary cause of earthquakes?

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The movement of tectonic plates along faults.

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What type of boundary is characterized by plates sliding past each other?

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Transform boundary.