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What causes tectonic plate movement?

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Convection currents in the mantle.

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Why are there no volcanoes at transform boundaries?

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There is no subduction to cause a plate to melt, and there is no magma at this plate boundary.

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How do plates interact at a transform plate boundary?

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Plates slide past one another.

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What type of boundary is a transform boundary?

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Transform boundary.

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What geological event is commonly associated with transform boundaries?

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Earthquakes.

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What is a tectonic plate?

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A massive slab of solid rock that makes up the Earth's lithosphere.

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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 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 the asthenosphere?

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The semi-fluid layer of the mantle beneath the lithosphere that allows tectonic plates to move.

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What is a fault line?

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