Plate Tectonics

Front

What are the two types of boundaries where volcanoes are created?

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Divergent and Convergent boundaries.

Front

What type of boundary do subduction zones occur along?

Back

Oceanic-Continental boundaries.

Front

Where are the youngest rocks on Earth found?

Back

Along mid-ocean ridges.

Front

How do tectonic plates move along a divergent boundary?

Back

They move away from one another.

Front

What type of boundary is characterized by plates sliding past one another?

Back

Transform boundary.

Front

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

Back

Subduction.

Front

What geological feature is formed at a divergent boundary?

Back

Mid-ocean ridges.

Front

What type of boundary occurs when two continental plates collide?

Back

Continental-Continental Convergent boundary.

Front

What is created when two oceanic plates collide?

Back

Oceanic trenches.

Front

What type of boundary is associated with the formation of mountains?

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Continental-Continental Convergent boundary.