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The following questions pertain to information contained in Video 6 "Plate Dynamics" in the Earth Revealed Series.  Please keep your answers as short and concise as possible.

  1. What are the "Plates", and where are they located?
  2. What happens at diverging plate boundaries?
  3. Which type of crust is more dense?
  4. What activity occurs  at a transform fault?
  5. What is the asthenosphere?
  6. What is convection and what does it have to do with plate tectonics?
  7. How is heat being generated in the interior of the earth?
  8. What are "Hot Spots"?
  9. Why have the Hawaiian Islands formed in a chain?
  10. Where do deep marine trenches form?
  11. What is paleomagnetism?

 

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