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STUDY NOTES – Standard 2, Objective 3
PLATE BOUNDARIES
1
• Two plates slide past each other horizontally
transform boundary.
at a _________
2
• The Pacific Ring of Fire is a zone of active
volcanoes
_____________.
3
• When the oceanic and continental
oceanic plate
lithospheres collide, the _______
subducts
_________.
4
• Tectonic plates can include both oceanic and
continental crust.
___________
5
• Food, water, flashlights, and a portable radio
prepare for earthquakes.
are needed to _______
6
epicenter of an earthquake is the point
• The ________
above the
on Earth’s surface directly ______
earthquake’s focus.
7
• The theory that explains why and how
plate tectonics.
continents move is called _____
8
transform boundary is the
• An example of a _________
San Andreas Fault in California.
9
ridge push, and slab ____ work
• Convection, _____
together to produce constant tectonic
pull plate
_______.
motion
10
• Frequent earthquakes in an area may indicate
boundaries
tectonic plate ___________.
11
• The hottest rock is found in __________
subduction zones
rift valleys.
and under mid-ocean ___
12
• During a major earthquake, buildings may
collapse
sway or ________.
13
• The two sources of energy heating Earth’s
decay and heat from
mantle are radioactive _______
Earth’s _______.
interior
14
beneath
• Subduction is when one plate goes ________
another.
15
• Plates move away from each other at a midmid-ocean ridge.
__________
16
• If you are indoors during an earthquake you
windows and objects
should stay away from ________
stand in a doorway.
that may fall; _____
17
• As Australia drifted away from Asia, its animal
evolved into different forms than Asia.
life ________
18
upward
• The movement of heated materials ________
and the movement of cooled materials
convection
downward is called __________.
19
Earthquakes usually occur at plate
• ___________
boundaries when rock in environments near
tectonic plate boundaries experience great
stress
______.
20
denser
• When two oceanic plates collide the ________
subducts
plate ________.
21
• The rise of the Himalayan Mountains changed
wind patterns.
world _____
22
• Rock begins to sink when it has ______
cooled and
becomes denser.
23
ridge is a ____
rift
• At the center of a mid-ocean _____
valley.
24
plates are blocks of ___________.
lithosphere
• Tectonic _____
25
continental plates results
• The collision of two __________
mountains
in the formation of __________.
26
move when heat
• Earth’s tectonic plate’s ______
convection currents in Earth’s
creates __________
mantle.
27
size of
• The breakup of Pangea changed the ____
the continents and world ________.
climates
28
subducting plate boundary will pull the
• A __________
down
rest of the plate _____.
29
• Earthquakes generally occur at plate
stress on rocks is
boundaries, where ______
greatest.
30
• The Himalaya Mountains were formed in a
________
collision at a convergent boundary.
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