Tectonic Plates 🌍 Flashcards
1
Q
What are the 3 different types of plates
A
Separating plates,colliding plates and sliding plates
2
Q
What can separating plates cause
A
Volcanoes or mid ocean ridges (underwater mountains)
3
Q
What can colliding plates cause
A
Volcanos, fold mountains and earthquakes
4
Q
What can sliding plates cause
A
Earthquakes
5
Q
What was the continent called that all of earths continents were connected to
A
Pangaea (pan-Jee-a)
6
Q
How many years ago was the continents together
A
250 million years ago
7
Q
What is the process called which continents move over time
A
Continent drift
8
Q
How to the earths plates move
A
They move because of a process called convection currents. Magma rises to the crust then cools and becomes hard and sinks to the core. This makes the plates move very slowly
