Plate Tectonics Science
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- subduction
- the bending of the rock underneath the plate, this pressure is released in the form of energy, and it can cause earthquakes, etc.
- Earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains form, deep sea trenches
- Things that happen at plate boundaries
- ring of fire
- a ring of active volcanoes in the pacific ocean along Japan and Alaska
- convergent boundaries
- come together... (like by mount everest)
- geochronology
- rocks, time, the study of the age of the earth
- at plate boundaries
- where are the most earthquake epicenters located?
- divergent boundaries
- come apart... mid-atlantic ridge, it has magnetic symmetry
- tsunami
- a recent one in 2004 in indonesia, just off the coast at a convergent boundary. One of those plates got pushed up and forced all this water up and it will move for thousands of miles and wash away anything in its path
- epicenter
- the point on the surface of the earth above the origin of the earthquake
- divergent, convergent, transform
- Three kinds of boundaries:
- ring of fire and meditteranean map
- There are two active volcano belts which are the ____ and____
- Continental-Continental Convergence
- Two continents bang into each other, and you get a mountain range to form
- transform boundaries
- rub together.. san andreas fault in california
- magnetic symmetry
- in rocks, bands of rocks that are symmetrical on either side of a boundary, like every other can point north-south and every other can point south-north