What are the listhoperic plates also called?
Tectonic plates
What do all plates have in common?
A part of the crust and a part of the upper mantle.
Name 3 lithosperic plates:
Oceanic plates
Mixed plates
Continental plates
Match the principal plates with the 3 kinds of lithosperic plates:
Pacific, Nazca = Oceanic plates
African Eurasian, Indo-Australian, Antartic = Continental plates
Indo-Australian, African Eurasian, Antartic = Mixed plates
Where is the boundary of South American and African plate?
In the Atlantic Ocean
What is special about the continental plates?
That they are made of continental crust.
What happens with the movement of the plates?
Divergent boundaries
Convergent boundaries
Transform faults
What is the most important?
Transform faults
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