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Tectonic Boundaries

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

PLATE TECTOMICTS

BY ZACK KARABA

PLATE TECTONICS

THAT PIECES OF THE EARTH LITHOSPHERE ARE IN CONSTANT MOTION
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CONVECTION CURRENTS

a current in a fluid that results from convection.
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SLAB PULL

Slab pull is the portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for by its subduction

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When two plates diverge from each other/separate

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RIFT VALLEY

linear-shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges

MID OCEAN RIDGE

is an underwater mountain range, formed by plate tectonics

CONVERGENT

WHEN TO PLATES COME TOGETHER AND COLLIDE
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VOLCANIC ARC

IS A CHAIN OF VOLCANOES FORMED ABOVE A SUBDUCTING PLATE LIKE ANDIESS

ISLAND ARC

is a type of archipelago, often composed of a chain of volcanoes, with arc-shaped

MOUNTAINS

CONTINENATAL CONVERGES WITH CONTINENTAL CRUST FORMS MOUNT.
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SUBDUCTION

THE PROCESS THAT TAKES PLACE AT CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES BY WHICH ONE TECTONIC PLATE MOVES UNDER ANOTHER TECTONIC PLATE

DEEP OCEAN TRENCH

The oceanic trenches are hemispheric-scale long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor

TRANSFORM BOUNDARY

When two plates side past each other and cause earth quakes like San Andreas fault in Cali.
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TRANSFORM

Example is the san Andrés fault in Cali

TRANSFORM BOUNDARYS

They cause earth quakes
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