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Around the biggest plate a special "ring" has been formed. What's its name?

Ring of FIre

Iceland is also called the island of...........and ............

Ice and Fire

What is the name of the island that will be cut in half by plate movement?

Iceland

What's the opposite of a divergent plate?

Convergent

Which are the names of two different scales used to measure the strenght of earthquakes?

Mercalli and Richter

Which plate movement is the most devastating and dangerous?

Transform plate movement

Do you remember the location of a Valley created by divergent plates?

The Great Rift Valley in Africa

What is the instrument used to measure the strenght of a hearthquake?

A sismograph

What is an epicentre?

The point where the energy of the earthquake reaches the surface.

What is the name of the biggest plate?

Pacific plate

What is an hypocentre?

The point from which the energy and the waves of the hearthquake originate.

Which type of movement caused the earthquake in Turkey?

Transform

Depending on what is on top of it plates are divided in two categories that are...

Oceanic and continental plates

Which are the three possible movements of tectonic plates?

Divergent, convergent, transform

Do you remember the name and location of an important area that is under pressure because of transform plates?

San Andreas fault in California

Do you remember the name of the 7 major tectonic plates?

Eurasian, African, Australian (Indian), Antartic, North American, South American, Pacific

What are the "boundaries of a plate"?

The border, the limits, the outer part of a plate

What happens when two plates are divergent?

Creation of a Rift Valley