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Volcanoes And Earthquakes The Violent Planet Under Your Feet

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Volcanoes and earthquakes

Imágenes

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The great rifts tearing land apart

teacher Divergent boundaries are places where plates pull away from each other, allowing molten rock to rise and create new crust.

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Where plates crash and create mountains

teacher Convergent boundaries occur where plates collide, forcing land upward into massive mountain ranges or down into deep ocean trenches.

Fun Facts

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Fun Fact

Plate movement: Earth's tectonic plates move at roughly the same speed that human fingernails grow, about 3 to 10 centimeters every year.

Quizzes

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Which tectonic plate is the largest on Earth?

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What type of plate boundary created the Himalayan mountains?

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Which geological feature is formed when two plates pull apart under the ocean?

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Which famous fault line in California represents a transform boundary?

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How fast do tectonic plates typically move each year?

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What layer of the Earth lies directly beneath the tectonic plates, allowing them to slide?

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Who first proposed the concept of continental drift in 1912?

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What is the name of the supercontinent that existed 300 million years ago?

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Glossary

tectonic plate (noun)
A massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock that makes up the Earth's lithosphere. In 1912, Alfred Wegener laid the groundwork for this concept by proposing that the continents once drifted.

Gossip

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Would you live near a major plate boundary?

Videos

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teacher The great rifts tearing land apart

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teacher Where plates crash and create mountains

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teacher The slow drift of our continents

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teacher The grinding edges of transform faults