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What can you explore using a plate boundary map?

Earthquakes / Volcanoes / Earth’s landscape

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What do we call the layer where plates float?

The mantle.

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What happens at a transform boundary?

Plates slide past each other.

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What are the three types of plate boundaries?

Transform (or conservative), convergent, and divergent.

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Why do earthquakes happen at plate boundaries?

Because plates move and push/pull against each other.

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Which plates formed the Himalaya mountains?

Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate.

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What is Earth’s lithosphere made of?

Tectonic plates.

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How fast do tectonic plates move per year?

5 to 10 centimeters

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Name one natural event caused by moving plates.

Earthquakes / Volcanoes / Mountains / Trenches

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What causes tectonic plates to move?

The convection of the mantle.

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What happens at a divergent boundary?

Plates pull apart / move away.

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What do convergent boundaries create?

Mountains / Trenches (e.g., Himalayas).

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What did the African and Arabian Plates form?

The Red Sea.

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