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10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt Tectonic Plates World Coordinates The Earth Convergent, Divergent, Transform Hodge Podge

Along plate boundaries exists most of the Earth’s volcanoes and…

What is earthquakes?

The most famous plate boundary

What is the Ring of Fire?

The type of boundary where plates push together

The type of boundary where plates slide together What is a convergent fault?

The type of plate where boundaries push apart

What is a divergent fault?

The type of fault where the plates slide side-by-side

What is a transform fault?

The imaginary lines that travel vertically on a map and tell us the East or West direction of a place on Earth.

What is longitude?

The imaginary lines that travel horizontally on a map and tell us the North or South direction of a place on Earth.

What is latitude?

The line of latitude that crosses through countries such as Congo, Indonesia, and Ecuador

What is the Equator?

The Hawaiian Islands were formed from volcanoes that occurred at a

What is a hot spot?

The shock waves that are sent out when an earthquake occurs

What are seismic waves?

The Earth’s Center made up of solid iron

What is the inner core?

The second layer of the Earth made up of liquid iron

What is the outer core?

The third layer of the Earth made up of liquid rock under tremendous heat and pressure.

What is the Mantle?

The layer of the Earth that flows on molten rock

What is the Crust?

The name of the Earth’s first continent

What is Pangaea?

Rocky Mountains, BC, Canada

Rocky Mountains What is convergent?

Mid-Atlantic Rift Thingvellir, Iceland

Mid-Atlantic Rift What is a Divergent?

San Andreas Fault, California

What is transform?

The Himalayas

What is convergent?

Great Rift Valley

What is divergent?

The type of eruption that occurred at Mt St Helens in 1980

What is a lateral eruption?

This North American Volcano

What is Mt. St. Helens?

This Asian City after an earthquake

What is Kobe, Japan?

This city was struck by major earthquakes in 1906 and during the 1989 World Series.

What is San Francisco?

These islands were formed from volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean

What are the Hawaiian Islands?