Tectonic Plates

3. When oceanic plates collide with continental plates a __________ will form between the two plates.
6. When two continental plates collide large __________ will usually form.
7. ridges, Underwater mountain ranges where the crust is spreading apart creating new ocean floor.
9. The __________ mountain range was formed from the collision of the Indian plate colliding into the Eurasian plate.
10. When plates collide the plate that is __________ will subduct.
14. Ridge, The __________-__________ __________ is an example of a divergent boundary.
15. A region where oceanic plates sink down.
17. floor spreading, The process by which new oceanic lithosphere is created.
19. plates, like pieces of a puzzle
20. Tectonic Theory, theory that Earth's lithosphere is divided into.

1. Earthquakes often occur at __________ lines.
2. The San Andreas Fault in California is a __________ plate boundary.
4. a place where two tectonic plates meet.
5. When a divergent boundary occurs on land a __________, or separation, will arise and over time, that mass of land will break between them.
8. boundaries, The boundary where two tectonic plates meet and push into one another.
11. Transform boundaries (faults) cause __________.
12. At a __________ plate boundary, new crust is created as two or more plates pull away from each other.
13. There are __________ major tectonic plates.
16. Currents, A circulation pattern in which material is heated and rises in one area then cools and sinks in another area, flowing in a continuous loop
18. When oceanic crust melts it can result in the formation of a __________.