Plate boundaries

Question 1

Can we predict what formations and hazards will occur in an area?

Answer 1

yes

Question 2

What does the continental crust have a lot of what?

Answer 2

quartz

Question 3

What’s the average density of a continental crust?

Answer 3

2.6 g/ cm3

Question 4

What does the oceanic crust have a lot of what?

Answer 4

mafic/ basalt

Question 5

What’s the average density of an oceanic crust?

Answer 5

3 g/ cm3

Question 6

When two continental crust with the same densities collide what do they form?

Answer 6

mountains

Question 7

When two continental crust with different densities collide what do they form?

Answer 7

volcanoes

Question 8

How do plate tectonic plates move?

Answer 8

By the Convection currents

Question 9

Which rocks are more dense? hot or cooler rocks.

Answer 9

Cooler

Question 10

What are some examples of divergent plate boundaries?

Answer 10

Mid-ocean ridges

Question 11

What are some examples of convergent plate boundaries?

Answer 11

The Himalaya mountains

Question 12

What are some examples of a subduction zone?

Answer 12

trenches

Question 13

What are some examples of transform plate boundaries?

Answer 13

San Andres Fault, in California

Question 14

Do the convection currents go in the same direction as the tectonic plate boundaries?

Answer 14

yes

Question 15

What do volcanology maps tell us?

Answer 15

That volcanoes are abundant along the west coast

Question 16

What does the seismology map tell us?

Answer 16

Earthquakes are abundant along the west coast and scattered elsewhere

Question 17

What does the geography map tell us?

Answer 17

The topography of mountains and high mountains lie near the coasts

Question 18

What does the geochronology map tell us?

Answer 18

the distribution of oceanic floor and the older oceanic floors lie near the coasts