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