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2. What happens when the plates move into each other?

  • An animal jumps up and down.
  • An earthquake.
  • A volcano is formed

3. Explain why tectonic plates move.

  • They bounce or jump.
  • Huge convection currents are set up, this pushes hot material upwards, cools near the crust, then sinks again, pushing the tectonic plates around the Earth. Cooler oceanic plates go under the continental plates called subduction.
  • Nothing happens

4. What is lithosphere?

  • Subduction process
  • The crust and the outer part of the mantle.
  • Oceanic and continental plates

5. What are tectonic plates?

  • Lithosphere broken into huge parts.
  • Oceanic and continental plates
  • Convection currents

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