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6th Grade Science: Tectonics Plates
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Tectonic plates are gigantic pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle. They are made up of oceanic crust and continental crust. Earthquakes occur around mid-ocean ridges and the large faults which mark the edges of the plates.

6th Grade Science: Tectonics Plates
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1. This is

Image: North American Plate

2. This is

Image: Indo-Australian Plate

3. Plates split apart and create mid-ocean ridges and valleys
Image: Diverge

4. The reason Oceanic crust will subduct under Continental crust

5. This is

Image: African Plate

6. the plates will create an ocean ridge and new crust will form
Image: Divergent plate boundary occurrance

7. the largest layer of the Earth
Image: Mantle

8. layer of Earth thought to be solid and composed mostly of iron
Image: Inner Core

9. This is

Image: South American Plate

10. This is

Image: Antarctic Plate

11. A geological feature created when Oceanic crust converges with Continental crust
Image: Volcanoes

12. are pieces of the lithosphere
Image: Earth

13. the largest tectonic plate
Image: Pacific

14. Plates slide past each other causing earthquakes
Image: Transform

15. This is

Image: Pacific Plate

16. This is

Image: Eurasian Plate

17. occur at Transform boundaries
Image: Earthquakes

18. This is

Image: Nazca Plate

19. solid, but flowing
Image: Asthenosphere

20. Plates come together and form mountains or one slides underneath and form volcanoes
Image: Converge

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