Plate Boundaries

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What causes tectonic plates to move?

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Convection currents in the mantle.

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What type of plate boundary occurs when plates slide past each other?

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Transform boundary.

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What happens at a convergent plate boundary?

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Plates collide or converge into each other.

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What is created when an ocean plate collides with another ocean plate?

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Volcanic arc of islands.

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What is the lithosphere?

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The uppermost part of the mantle and lower part of the crust.

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What is a divergent plate boundary?

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A boundary where tectonic plates move apart from each other.

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What geological feature is formed at a divergent boundary?

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Mid-ocean ridge.

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What is subduction?

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The process where one tectonic plate moves under another plate.

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What is the asthenosphere?

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The semi-fluid layer of the mantle beneath the lithosphere.

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What natural disaster is commonly associated with transform boundaries?

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Earthquakes.