Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics review 1

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What occurs at a divergent boundary?

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Plates pull apart.

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What mountain range was formed by the collision of the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate?

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The Himalayan Mountains.

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What type of plate boundary forms the Mid Atlantic Ridge?

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Divergent.

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What is the term for the deflection of surface winds and ocean currents in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

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Coriolis Effect.

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What are the two types of crust?

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Continental and oceanic.

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What is the process called when one tectonic plate moves under another?

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Subduction.

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

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Transform boundary.

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What geological feature is formed at a convergent boundary?

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Mountains, trenches, or volcanic arcs.

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What is the theory that explains the movement of Earth's plates?

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Plate Tectonics.

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What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

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The crust.