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Plates slide past eachother creating a _______ boundary.
Transform boundary
Plates come together at a ______ boundary.
Convergent Boundary
Plates split apart at a ______ boundary.
Divergent Boundary
When two plates carrying continental crust smash together to form mountains at a convergent boundary it's called...
A Continental-Continental Collision
When two plates smash together (one oceanic another continental) to form coastal mountains, volcanoes, and deep sea trenches it is called...
A Oceanic-Continental Subduction
When to plates smash together both carrying oceanic crust it is called to form deep sea trenches and island arcs it is called...
A Oceanic-Oceanic Subduction
Effects of a Divergent Boundary with two Oceanic Plates are...
Mid-Ocean Ridges and Rift Valleys
Effects of a Divergent Boundary with two Continental Plates are...
Rift Valleys and Volcanoes
Effects of a Continental-Continental Collision are...
Mountain Ranges
Effects of a Oceanic-Continental Subduction are...
Coastal Mountains, Volcanoes, and Deep-Sea Trenches
Effects of a Oceanic-Oceanic Subduction are...
Island Arcs and Deep-Sea Trenches
Effects of a Transform Boundary are...
Faults and Earthquakes
The Lithosphere is made up of...
The Crust and Upper Mantle (Rigid)
The Asthenosphere is made up of...
The Mantle (Flowing)