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GAME PLATE BOUNDARIES

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  • plates sliding next to each other
    transform boundaries
  • Which two plates results in subduction of the oceanic plate
    Ocean-continental
  • plates slide horizontally, what happens here?
    Transform-fault boundaries-
  • Plates move apart
    Divergent boundaries
  • Destructive (subduction or collision) boundary_______
    convergent boundaries
  • What are iron deposits?
    Iron that is coming up from the Mid Atlantic Ridge, in the Atlantic Ocean
  • What are the iron deposits interfering with when traveling?
    compasses, GPS
  • What is seafloor spreading?
    It is the Mid Atlantic Ridge, a divergent boundary, the oceanic plates are moving away from each other.
  • Plates moving away from each other _____________
    divergent boundary
  • IDENTIFY THIS PLATE BOUNDARIES
    CONVERGENT
  • Convergent activity under water results in which two plates coming together?
    Oceanic-oceanic, island arc volcanoes
  • Explain what magnetic polarity is.
    It is the theory that the poles will change direction every 2 million years or so, give or take a million.
  • border between 2 tectonic plates
    boundary
  • What comes together and results in enormous mountains like the Himalayas.
    Continental-continental
  • IDENTIFY THE GIVEN PLATE BOUNDARY
    TRANSFORM
  • The Ring of Fire is made of what? Where?
    VOLCANOES, Pacific Ocean
  • IDENTIFY THE GIVEN PLATE BOUNDARY
    DIVERGENT
  • plates move together
    Convergent boundaries
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