Plate Tectonics Flashcard

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What happens to rock around a subducting slab?

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It goes under the other plate.

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What is the lithosphere?

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The plates that make up the crust and the upper part of the mantle.

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What is the result of the collision of two continental plates?

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Mountain building.

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What conditions are necessary for the formation of a volcanic arc?

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Volcanoes forming parallel to a plate boundary.

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What occurs when plates move horizontally past each other?

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Transform fault.

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What is a tectonic plate?

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A large slab of Earth's lithosphere that moves and interacts with other plates.

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What is subduction?

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The process where one tectonic plate moves under another and sinks into the mantle.

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What are divergent boundaries?

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Boundaries where two tectonic plates move away from each other.

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What is a convergent boundary?

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A boundary where two tectonic plates collide.

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What is a transform boundary?

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A boundary where two tectonic plates slide past each other.