FlashcardsPlate Tectonics Flashcards
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This 23-card flashcard set covers plate tectonics fundamentals for 9th graders, including plate boundaries, mountain formation, seafloor spreading, subduction zones, and natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Topics range from Pangaea and mantle convection to the Moment Magnitude Scale. Use it for vocabulary review, exam preparation, or concept reinforcement during a unit on Earth's structure and plate interactions.
Terms in This Set
- What type of boundary forms when two plates move apart?
- Type of boundary where plates collide
- Type of boundary where plates slide past each other
- Natural Structure formed when oceanic - continental plates collide
- Natural Structure formed when oceanic - oceanic plates collide
- Natural hazard common at transform boundaries
- Large mountain ranges
- Seafloor spreading
- Mid-ocean ridges
- Subduction zone
- Volcanic eruptions
- Plate Tectonics
- Source of heat driving mantle convection
- Term for continents moving over Earth’s surface
- Boundary type that creates rift valleys
- What forms when two oceanic plates diverge
- Cause of most tsunamis
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- Pangaea
- Recycled into the mantle
- Divergent boundary
- Moment Magnitude or Richter Scale Ex: 4.0 or 5.0
- Underwater earthquakes
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