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5/5/23. TECTONIC PLATES

STUDENT NAME____________________________
Horizontales
__boundaries
The plates are in constant, slow motion, driven by mantle--currents.
Earth’s lithosphere is broken into separate sections of rock called ____.
Hot mantle material rises in an ___ because it is less dense than the surrounding material.
Plates fit together along --- in the crust.
In a ___ridge, oceans spread apart at divergent underwater boundaries.
__collision, both plates have the same density, so the plates fold upward.
The ocean floor sinks into deep underwater canyons called oceanic __.
__boundary, when two plates push past one another.
An example of a famous 'Fault' is --- Fault in California.
A ---boundary is when 2 tectonic plates meet.
Verticales
At transform boundaries, ___ Material is neither created nor destroyed.
___is when cooler mantle material sinks as it cools because it is more dense than the surrounding material.
_____ crust is more dense than continental.
___ collision forms oceanic trenches, mountains, volcanoes.
__carry oceanic/continental crusts, or both.
__boundary, 2 plates move apart.
A __ is when continents split apart at divergent boundaries.
In a ___, continents split apart at divergent boundaries on land.
___boundary, 2 plates push together.
Theory of plate tectonics states that the lithosphere is made of huge plates that are in constant, slow motion, driven by ___ currents in the mantle.
As the tectonic plates move, they produce changes such as ___, earthquakes.
Earth’s lithosphere is broken into separate sections of rock called____ plates.
When plates collide, the ___of the plates determines which plate comes out on top!
The topmost layer of the ___ is made of extremely hot, soft rock.