Plate Boundaries Flashcards

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At divergent boundaries, what happens to the crust?

Back

New crust is formed

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At divergent boundaries how do the plates move?

Back

Apart or away from each other

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At convergent boundaries, what happens to the crust?

Back

crust is folded or destroyed

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At convergent boundaries, how do plates move?

Back

towards each other

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At transform boundaries, what happens to the crust?

Back

the crust is neither created nor destroyed but is deformed.

Front

At transform boundaries, how do the plates move?

Back

Slide/scrape past each other

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The five steps of a continental divergent boundary separating:

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1. Hot material rises from deep in the mantle. 2. The crust bulges upward. 3. The crust is stretched, forming a rift valley. 4. Magma rises, forming volcanoes. 5. The continent begins to split apart.

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Places where heated rock rises in plumes from the mantle are called

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Hot Spots

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The Alps and Himalayas formed from

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continental-continental collisions

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Most deep ocean trenches are found in the

Back

Pacific Ocean

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