Tectonic PLates

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What type of plate boundary forms mountains and volcanoes?

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Convergent plate boundary.

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What is the Indo-Australian Plate?

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A tectonic plate division of the lithosphere including the continental crust of India and Australia and the surrounding oceanic crust.

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True or False: The lithosphere is broken into tectonic plates.

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True.

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What is mountain building in geology?

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A major geological event that occurs when continental plates of equal density converge.

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What is subduction?

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Occurs when one plate is denser than another and is forced below as the two plates converge at their boundary.

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What are tectonic plates?

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Huge pieces of lithosphere that slowly move on the asthenosphere, consisting of the crust and the rigid, uppermost part of the mantle.

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What happens at a divergent plate boundary?

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Tectonic plates move apart, leading to the formation of new crust.

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What geological feature is commonly associated with transform plate boundaries?

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Earthquakes.

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What is the asthenosphere?

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The semi-fluid layer of the mantle on which tectonic plates float.

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What is the result of two continental plates colliding?

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Formation of mountain ranges.