Layers of the Earth and Plate Tectonics | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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This plate boundary has rising convection currents below lifts the lithosphere, producing a mid-ocean ridge.

Divergent

When continental and oceanic plates collide and move towards each other, this describes which type of plate tectonic?

Convergent

__________ boundaries are places where plates slide sideways past each other.

Transform

Which layer is made up of LIQUID nickel and iron metal. Also creates Earth’s magnetic field.

Outer core

Which type of plate tectonic boundary has plates that move towards each other. May form mountains and volcanoes.

Convergent

Which plate tectonic boundary has plates that slide past each other. Example San Andreas Fault

Transform

Which layer does the number 5 represent?

Asthenosphere

Which layer of Earth is the thinnest and is only 1% of Earth's mass?

Crust

Which layer makes up 68% of Earth's mass and is also the thickest layer of Earth?

mantle

True/False? Earthquakes and volcanoes most likely occur along the plate tectonic boundaries?

True

During a convergent plate boundary, the oceanic plate is forced down into the mantle in a process known as __________

subduction