Plate Margins Flashcards
What is a rift valley?
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A long, narrow valley lying between two normal geologic faults. Rift valleys usually form where the Earth’s lithosphere has become thin through extension associated with plate-tectonic processes.
What is a rift valley?
Identify the three types of plate margin.
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Constructive, conservative and destructive.
Identify the three types of plate margin.
Draw a diagram to show the main features of a destructive plate margin
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Draw a diagram to show the main features of a destructive plate margin
What are the characteristics of the inner core?
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A solid mass of iron and nickel. The hottest part of the Earth. Temperatures up to 5,550°C.
What are the characteristics of the inner core?
Give an example of two tectonic plates that form a conservative plate margin.
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North American and Pacific plates, Cocos and Nazca plates, Arabian and Indo-Australian plates and the African and Eurasian plates.
Give an example of two tectonic plates that form a conservative plate margin.