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6 Cards in this Set
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Where are some of the area where the volcanoes and earthquakes occur most frequently?
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Ring of Fire (Convergent, Subduction)
Asian- African Rift (Divergent) Indo- Austrailian Plate (Convergent) Mid Atlantic Ridge (Divergent) |
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What do the jagged lines mean?
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The boundries of the techtonic plates
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What is the Ring of Fire?
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The oceanic plate that the Pacific Ocean sits on
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What is happening in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
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Divergent plate motion that created volcanoes, which created Iceland and created the entire Atlantic Ocean
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Why are there so many earthquakes and volcanoes in specific locations?
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Transform plate motion, San Andreas Fault, where the Pacific Plate (Los Angeles- Oceanic Plate) and the N. American Plate (San Fransisco- Continental Plate) crash against each other and in a result, an earthquake
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What are the three types of plate motion?
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1. Convergent plate motion
(to each other) 2. Divergent plate motion (away from each other) 3. Transform plate motion (up and down against each other) |
