Plate Tectonics Final

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What type of boundary do the majority of the world's earthquakes and volcanoes occur?

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Convergent boundary.

Front

At which boundary is crust neither consumed nor created?

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Transform boundary.

Front

What is the area called where the oceanic crust goes beneath the continental crust?

Back

Subduction zone.

Front

At which plate boundary is new crust formed?

Back

Divergent boundary.

Front

What is the driving force behind the movement of tectonic plates?

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Convection currents in the mantle.

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What are tectonic plates?

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Large sections of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other.

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What is the lithosphere?

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The rigid outer layer of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.

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What is a fault?

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A fracture in the Earth's crust where blocks of rock have moved past each other.

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What is the Ring of Fire?

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A major area in the Pacific Ocean where many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.

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What is a divergent boundary?

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A tectonic plate boundary where two plates move away from each other, creating new crust.