Geography Plate Tectonics PART 1

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Who created the 'Jigsaw fit of the Atlantic' originally?
Francis Bacon
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Who then improved the jigsaw fit theory by matching the 'continental shelves'?
Alfred Wegner
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Two plates colliding, one sub-ducts underneath the other - what is this plate boundary called?
Destructive
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Two plates 'sliding' past each other - which plate boundary is this?
Passive/conservative
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Two plate moving apart from one another - what plate boundary is this?
Constructive
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What name is given to the phenomena in which a magma plume burns through thin crust
Hot spot volcano
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How do the plates move?
Convection currents
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Which Lava is described as 'viscous', 'slow', 'solidifies quickly' and 'can cause immense pressure'
Acidic lava
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What is the name given to the feature made by; At a destructive margin the sediment in the subduction zone is compressed into rock and forced upwards (also formed at collision margins)
Fold mountains
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Who then improved the jigsaw fit theory by matching the 'continental shelves'?

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Alfred Wegner

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Two plates colliding, one sub-ducts underneath the other - what is this plate boundary called?

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Two plates 'sliding' past each other - which plate boundary is this?

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Two plate moving apart from one another - what plate boundary is this?

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