Tectonic Plates

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When hot magma in the earth moves towards the surface, cools, then sinks again.
Rifting causes...
The less dense plates slides under more dense plates.
A place where folded and thrusts faulted mountain forms.
boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other.
The crust and part of the upper mantle.
_________ are plates below the ocean
Boundary between two plates that are colliding.
________ occur at subduction zones.
Less dense plate slides under the more dense plate under the more dense plate creating a subduction
Hot _____ in the earth moves towards the surface, cools, then sinks again.
Plates below the continents.
The earths crust and upper mantle are broken into sections called ___________.
The paster layer beneath the lithosphere.
A collision zone is a place where folded and thrust faulted _________.
Transform fault boundaries have _____________ along thier faults.
Boundary between two plates that are moving apart or rifting.
The _____ of the lithosphere float on the asthenosphere.
The layer above the core.
Plates move around on top of the mantle like _____.