G100: Earth Revealed

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Episode 6: Plate Dynamics

 

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Describe a divergent plate boundary and give an example.

 

Describe the three (3) types of convergent plate boundaries and give an example of each.

 

Why are the volcanoes at convergent plate boundaries different from those at divergent boundaries? What causes this difference?

 

What is a mantle plume? What will happen to the island of Hawaii when it drifts away from the hot spot?

 

What are some of the things we have yet to learn about plate tectonics?

 

 

 

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