Plate Tectonics

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What causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

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Convection currents in the mantle.

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What type of plate boundary is characterized by plates moving towards each other?

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Convergent boundary.

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What geologic feature is commonly found at a divergent boundary between two oceanic crusts?

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Mid-Ocean Ridge.

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What is formed at an active transform boundary?

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A fault.

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What geologic feature is typically found at a convergent boundary between two continental crusts?

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Mountain.

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What is a divergent boundary?

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A plate boundary where two tectonic plates move away from each other.

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What is a convergent boundary?

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A plate boundary where two tectonic plates move towards each other.

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What is a transform boundary?

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A plate boundary where two tectonic plates slide past each other.

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What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?

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An underwater mountain range formed by plate tectonics at a divergent boundary.

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What is a rift valley?

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A lowland region formed by the divergence of tectonic plates.