Earth's Crust

A Tectonic Plate is

• Something you buy at the Dollar store

• Part of a weight set

• A moving piece of the earth’s crust

• A piece of lab equipment that you put on a scale.

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A plate boundary is

• Where two tectonic plates meet and seismic activity takes place.

• Where two chairs are placed at the diner table

• The corner of the gym where weights are stored

• The space in a science lab where glassware is stored

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A tectonic plate is also called a ___________________ plate

A divergent boundary is

• Plates move away from each other

• Plates move towards each other

• One plate slides underneath the other

• Where two plates collide

A plate convergence boundary is

• Where two plates pull apart from each other

• Where two plates collide with each other

• Where two plates slide by each other

• Where plates pull apart creating a trench Mike’s deep

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A transform plate boundary is

• Where two tectonic plates move away from each other

• Where two plates move towards each other and collide.

• Where two plates slide past each other.

• When a common dinner plate becomes Optimus Prime.

Subduction occurs when

• when two plates pull apart creating a trench.

• When you take away one number from another

• When two plates collide and one slides underneath the other.

• When seismic activity is subdued.

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Earths crust is made up of one solid piece

• True

• False

Pangea is

• A super continent made up of all the existing land masses

• The area around the pacific rim

• A three layer piece of the earths crust that can be up to 200km thick.

• A sponge like cake often served during the holidays in the pan pacific culture

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The earths crust is the same thickness everywhere it can be measured ... approximately 200 Km thick

• True

• False