Amplify Plate Motion Chapter 1

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What is an earthquake?

Back

The sudden shaking of Earth's surface.

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What is Earth's outer layer made up of?

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Earth's outer layer is made up of hard, solid rock.

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Where will the team find hard, solid rock when drilling underground?

Back

They will find hard, solid rock below both sites.

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What are the pieces that make up Earth's surface called?

Back

Tectonic Plates.

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What is the best definition of a 'plate' in geology?

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One of the large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer.

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What is the lithosphere?

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

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What is plate tectonics?

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The theory that explains the movement of Earth's plates and the processes that occur at their boundaries.

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What are tectonic plate boundaries?

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The edges where two tectonic plates meet, which can be divergent, convergent, or transform.

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What happens at a divergent boundary?

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Tectonic plates move apart, creating new crust as magma rises to the surface.

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What is a convergent boundary?

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A boundary where two tectonic plates collide, often causing one plate to be forced beneath the other.