Plate Tectonics Knowledge Check

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How do most mountains form?

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Continents collide and fold up on each other.

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What forms when two CONTINENTAL plates CONVERGE?

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Mountains.

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What type of boundary is the San Andreas Fault?

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Transform boundary.

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What is a Convergent Boundary?

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A plate boundary where two plates come together.

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What happens at a Transform Boundary?

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Plates pass by each other without being created or destroyed.

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What is a Divergent Boundary?

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A plate boundary where two plates move apart.

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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 the result of two oceanic plates converging?

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Volcanoes and ocean trenches.

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What is the primary cause of earthquakes at transform boundaries?

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The sliding of plates past each other.

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What is the Earth's lithosphere?

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The rigid outer layer of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.