Types of Boundaries Crustal Features Mixed More Mixed
100
Diverging
When two plates move away from each other.
100
Subduction
When one tectonic plate goes underneath another plate
100
Rift valley
This feature is found on continents at a divergent boundary.
100
Sea-Floor Spreading
When two oceanic plates diverge, what is it called?
200
Converging
When two plates move toward each other.
200
Volcanoes
These geological features form when one tectonic plate subducts under another plate.
200
Oceanic
Which is more dense? Oceanic or continental plate.
200
Volcanic Island Arc
When two oceanic plate boundaries meet, what crustal feature forms?
300
Transform
When two plates slide past each other.
300
Mountains
Two converging continental plates form the geological feature.
300
Volcanoes
When a oceanic plate slides under a continental plate, what feature id likely found here?
300
Volcanoes
When an oceanic crust moves under the continental crust, what will form?
400
San Andreas Fault
Famous transform boundary in California.
400
trench
A _______________is formed at a subduction zone.
400
Folded mountains
When two continental plates converge what crustal feature is expected to form?
400
Pangea
Theory that all land was once one super-continent.
500
Convection
The process that causes tectonic plates to move.
500
Mid Ocean Ridge
Divergent plates underneath the ocean cause this
500
mantle
Currents in the ________________ cause the tectonic plates to move.
500
Wegener
Scientist that came up with continental drift theory.






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