Chunky Tectonic Plates Or... Earth is really chunked up.

 older The farther oceanic crust is from a mid-ocean ridge the _________ it is.

 California or the West Coast or Alaska or Hawaii The area of the U.S. that has frequent earthquakes is _____________.

 Earthquakes, volcanoes and mountains 3 things happen or appear at plate boundaries. They are:

 Divergent Mid-ocean ridges are _________ plate boundaries.

 Convergent The Aleutian Trench is located at a __________ plate boundary.

 West There are frequent earthquakes on the _______ coast of South America.

 Convection or convection currents The driving force behind tectonic plate movement is mantle ________.

 The Equator Coal is found in NYS because 300 mya, NY was near _____________.

 Jig-saw puzzle One piece of evidence for plate tectonics is: continents fit together like a _________

 African The Canary Islands hot spot is in the __________ Plate.

 More dense Why does the oceanic crust sink beneath the continental crust?

 Pacific Plate and North American Plate The San Andreas Fault is between which two tectonic plates?

 Convection currents The circular arrows in the illustration are called __________________.

 Kauai Which island is the oldest?

The triangles on this map may represent ______.  A) Earthquakes  B) Mountain Ranges  C) Volcanoes  D) All of the above

Which NY State location has the greatest risk of a major earthquake?  Massena