Download Divergent Plates

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You are now a geologist who is excited to learn more about
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! more information. Answer the questions while at each website.
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Stop 1: Click Me to Learn About Divergent Plates
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1. What is the longest mountain chain on Earth?
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2. What happens at a rift valley?
3. What are the three steps to create new ocean floor?
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Stop 2: Click Me to Learn About Convergent Plates
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1. If divergent plates cause new land to be added to the Earth, why doesn’t the Earth
just grow and grow and grow?
2. What is it called when one plate slides under another?
A. Subduction
B. Trench
C. Divergent
D. Disappearing Act
3. What landform appears where two plates subduct?
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4. What happens to the descending plate (the plate that moves underneath)? Does it
A. Turn into a volcano
B. Sink into the mantle and melts
C. Get scared and run away
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Stop 3: Click Me to Learn About Another Type of Convergent Boundary
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1. If an ocean plate and a land mass plate converge (meet), which one will sink? Why?
2. What happens when two continental plates (or land masses) meet?
A. One will be heavier and subduct
B. They will crash into each other and form mountains
C. They will begin to move apart
D. One plate will be scared and start crying
3. What mountains formed because of continental plate convergence?
Stop 4: Click Here to Move Plates
-Once you are on the above page, click on Plate Tectonics Activity
-Click and drag the plates at the top of the diagram and read about what type of
boundary you are creating.
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If you get done, try one of these games:
1. Click Me to Play Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
2. Click Me to Try a Word Search
-For this word search, you must find the
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words that answer the clues underneath