5.21: Plate Tectonics- Challenge 3
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- 5399
- 1. What happens when an oceanic plate and a continental plate converge?
- The oceanic plate subducts beneath the continental plate.
- 2. Two lithospheric plates come together and one sinks beneath the other at a ___ zone.
- subduction
- 3. Order the following events in the creation of an island arc: the subducting plate causes melting in the mantle above it (1); two oceanic plates converge (2); the magma finds a crack in the crust and fills a magma chamber beneath a volcano (3); the older, denser plate subducts into a trench (4)
- 2, 4, 1, 3
- 4. When two oceanic plates converge, an ___ is created.
- island arc
- 5. The Himalayas and other mountain ranges are the result of the convergence of two ___ plates.
- continental
- 6. When two continental plates converge, ___.
- mountains grow upward
- 7. The tallest mountains on Earth are in the ___, which formed by two continental plates converging.
- Himalayas
- 8. ___ is geologic activity that takes place away from plate boundaries.
- Intraplate activity
- 9. What caused the bend in the Hawaii-Emperor volcanic chain?
- The Pacific Plate changed its direction of motion.
- 10. Which volcano lies above the Hawaiian hotspot?
- Kilauea