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Plate Tectonics. A Path To Victory!. 1. What is happening here?. Answer 1. Divergent boundary, 2 oceanic plates, mid-ocean ridge forming!. 2. How did these mountains form?. Answer 2. Folded mountains form when 2 continental plates converge—collide. 3. How did this most likely form? . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Plate Tectonics
A Path To Victory!
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1. What is happening here?
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Answer 1
Divergent boundary, 2 oceanic plates, mid-ocean ridge forming!
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Answer 2
• Folded mountains form when 2 continental plates converge—collide.
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Answer 3
Fault block mountains form when continental plates diverge.
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4. What is happening here?
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Answer 4
• Rift valley forms when continental plates diverge.
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5. What causes this?
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Answer 5
Subduction: When heavier plate dives beneath less dense plate.
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6. What types of plate subduct?
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Answer 6
• Oceanic plates subduct beneath continental plates or other oceanic (less dense) plates.
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7. What crustal features form at subduction zones?
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Answer 7
• Trench, volcanic mountain
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8. What is forming here?
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Answer 8
• Mid-ocean ridge volcano!
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9. What type of boundary is this?
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Answer 9
• Divergent: 2 oceanic plates pulling apart.
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10. Where do trenches form?
• ??????
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Answer 10
• At subduction zones.
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11. What are 2 ways volcanoes can form?
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Answer 11
• Mid-ocean ridge Subduction
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12. What powers plate tectonics?
?????
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Answer 12
• Convection in the mantle!
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13. Name 3 supports for continental drift
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Answer 13
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14. How does subduction form volcanoes?
• ???????
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Answer 14.
• Subducting plate melts then “bubbles up” to form volcano.
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15. How did these possibly form?
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Answer 15
• Aleutian Islands
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16. How did this form?
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Answer 16.
• Two oceanic plates diverging-mid ocean ridge.
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17. What do you think this is?
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Answer 17.
• Iceland! Part of mid-ocean ridge (Atlantic)
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18. What is this?
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Answer 18
• Ring of fire! Subduction zones around the world form this ring.
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19. What happens to rocks as you move away from ridge?
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Answer 19.
They get older…they move closer to subduction/trench.
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20. What is this showing?
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Answer 20.
• Rocks formed at ridge record earth’s magnetic field reversal.
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21. What will most likely form at boundary of Antarctic plate and Cocos plate?
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Answer 21.
It’s 2 oceanics diverging, so mid-ocean ridge.
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22. What is causing the Himalayas to form?
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Answer 22.
2 continental plates converging.
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23. Where is oceanic crust destroyed?
??????
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Answer 23
• Subduction zones!
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24. Upwelling here shows what forming?
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Answer 24.
• New ocean floor/rock
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25. Where in the U.S. would we find a transform boudary?
• ?????
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Answer 25
• San Andreas fault in California