Plate Boundaries

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What happens at a divergent plate boundary?

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The plates are spreading apart.

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What is most likely to occur at a divergent plate boundary?

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Earthquake.

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What type of plate boundary involves plates sliding past each other?

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Transform plate boundary.

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What forms at divergent plate boundaries?

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Mid-ocean ridges form from magma rising and cooling.

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What is a convergent plate boundary?

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A boundary where plates move towards each other.

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What geological feature is commonly formed at convergent boundaries?

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Mountains.

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What is a transform plate boundary?

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A boundary where two plates slide past each other without creating or destroying crust.

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What can occur at transform plate boundaries?

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Earthquakes.

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What is the main cause of plate tectonics?

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The movement of the Earth's lithosphere on the semi-fluid asthenosphere.

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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.