Plate Tectonics Review

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Forms when two oceanic crust plates move apart, allowing magma to rise and cool

mid ocean ridge

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Forms when two continental crust plates toward each other, pushing the land upward

Mountain Ranges

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Valley

Forms when continental crust plates move apart, causing the land between them to sink

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Forms when two oceanic crust plates move towards each other and one plate sinks under the other

Volcanic island

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Forms when oceanic crust converges with continental crust and the oceanic crust sinks beneath the continental crust

Volcanic mountain range

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<p>What forms when these types of crust DIVERGE?</p>

What forms when these types of crust DIVERGE?

Valley

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<p>What forms when these types of crust CONVERGE?</p>

What forms when these types of crust CONVERGE?

Volcanic Island

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<p>What forms when these types of crust CONVERGE?</p>

What forms when these types of crust CONVERGE?

Mountain Range

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<p>What forms when these types of crust DIVERGE?</p>

What forms when these types of crust DIVERGE?

Mid Ocean Ridge

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<p>What forms when these types of crust CONVERGE?</p>

What forms when these types of crust CONVERGE?

Volcanic Mountain Range

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What happens at a transform boundary?

Plates slide past eachother and create an earthquake

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