Use this interactive website to explore plate boundaries.
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Slide the wood and boards past eachother so that there is friction between the sand. Describe the sound that it makes. What boundary does this model?
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Look at the image of the towels and boards pushed together with the sand in between. Which plate boundary is it modeling?
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Look at the images of the boards and paper being pulled apart. Which plate boundary is it modeling?
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What type of boundary is shown?
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What type of boundary is shown?
DIY Science: Plate Boundaries Divergent, Convergent and Transform (click here)
BrianPOP Plate Tectonics (click here)
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge
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Great Rift Valley website, website, video
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Himalaya Mountains
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Mariana Trench
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What type of boundary or boundaries create deep-sea trenches?
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
What type of boundary or boundaries create new seafloor?
Divergent
Convergent
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What type of boundary or boundaries CAN create earthquakes?
Divergent
Convergent
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What type of boundary or boundaries create mountain ranges?
Divergent
Convergent
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What type of boundary or boundaries create island arc?
Divergent
Convergent
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What type of boundary or boundaries create rift valleys?
Divergent
Convergent
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What type of boundary ALWAYS creates earthquakes?
Divergent
Convergent
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The word SUBDUCT goes with which plate boundary?
Divergent
Convergent
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The word FAULT goes with which plate boundary?
Divergent
Convergent
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The words COLLIDE or COLLSION goes with which plate boundary?
Divergent
Convergent
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The word SLIDE goes with which plate boundary?
Divergent
Convergent
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The phrase SEA FLOOR goes with which plate boundary?
Divergent
Convergent
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What type of boundary or boundaries create ridge?
Divergent
Convergent
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What type of boundary or boundaries create the strongest earthquakes?
Divergent
Convergent
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What type of boundary or boundaries create ocean basins?
Divergent
Convergent
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Which type of plate boundary involves 2 plates moving toward each other?
convergent
divergent
transform
What kind of plate boundary is pictured above?
convergent
divergent
transform
What type of crustal feature is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
island arc
folded mountain
trench
midocean ridge
What type of plate boundary forms the Mid-Atlantic ridge?
convergent
divergent
transform
thrust
Study the map of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Recall that there are two types of crust (oceanic and continental). How would you describe the types of crusts that are interacting at the plate boundary to create the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
continental crust interacting with continental crust
continental crust interacting with oceanic crust
oceanic crust interacting with oceanic crust
What type of crustal feature is the Great Rift Valley?
midocean ridge
rift valley
fault
volcanic mountains
What type of plate boundary causes the Great Rift Valley?
convergent
divergent
transform
subduction
Find the Great Rift Valley on the map. Recall that there are two types of crust (oceanic and continental). How would you describe the types of crusts that are interacting to create the Great Rift Valley?
continental interacting with continental
continental interacting with oceanic
oceanic interacting with oceanic
What type of crustal feature is the Himalayas?
island arc
folded mountains
fault
midocean ridge
What type of plate boundary is responsible for forming the Himalayas?
convergent
divergent
transform
fault
Find the Himalayas on the map. Recall that there are two types of crust (oceanic and continental). How would you describe the types of crusts that are interacting at the plate boundary to create the Himalayas?
continental interacting with continental
continental interacting with oceanic
oceanic interacting with oceanic
What type of crustal feature is the Mariana Trench?
midocean ridge
volcanic mountain
ocean trench
rift valley
What kind of plate boundary formed the Mariana Trench?
convergent
divergent
transform
strike slip fault
Find the Mariana Trench on the map. Recall that there are two types of crust (oceanic and continental). How would you describe the types of crusts that are interacting at the plate boundary to create the Mariana trench?
