Plate Boundaries Guided Notes - Part 2

Plate Boundaries Guided Notes


Part 2

Drag and Drop

Ridge-push occurs when the weight of the ridge

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the rest of the ​

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​ plate away from the ridge, often towards a subduction zone.

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pushes

tectonic

Multiple Choice

At the subduction zone, "gravity pull" (_________) comes into effect.

• slab-pull

• trench-pull

• collision-pull

Drag and Drop

This is simply the weight of the tectonic plate being subducted (

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dragging the rest of the plate behind it.

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pulled

overlying

plate

Transform Fault Boundaries

San Andreas Fault, also found as connectors of mid-ocean ridges

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​Example:

What causes plates to move?

Match

Match the following

• Heat from the core causes magma to ____ to the asthenosphere and move along the boundary of the asthenosphere and the lithosphere.

• Heat from the core causes magma to ____ to the asthenosphere and move along the boundary of the asthenosphere and the lithosphere.

• As the magma cools, it ____ toward the core.

• This slow cyclic movement causes the _____ to move like groceries on a conveyor belt.

Convection

rise

sinks

plates

• Convection

• rise

• sinks

• plates