Plate Tectonics and Landforms

Plate Tectonics and Landforms

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Science

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6th Grade

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112.18.b.10.C

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1.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

The North American plate and Pacific plates meet at the San Andres Fault in California causing frequent earthquakes. This fault is located at a _____ boundary.

Back

Transform

2.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Which oceanic plate in the above picture must be more dense?
(LEFT-----RIGHT)

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Back

The plate on the right (without the volcano)

3.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Which TWO landforms occur when a continental plate and an oceanic plate hit each other?

Back

Volcanoes on land and Deep Sea Trench

4.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

How do most mountains form?

Back

Continents collide and fold up on each other

5.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What kind of landform is created when a continent starts to get torn apart?

Media Image

Back

Rift Valley

6.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What forms when two CONTINENTAL plates CONVERGE?

Back

Mountains

7.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What are these plates doing?

Media Image

Back

Diverging

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