Plate Techtonics

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What causes the crust to move about on the Earth? Options: pressure from the inner core, convection currents in the mantle, wind currents in the troposphere, ocean currents like the gulf stream

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convection currents in the mantle

Front

Which type of plate boundary would cause mountains to form? Options: Transform, Convergent, Divergent, Reform

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Convergent

Front

This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel.

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Inner Core

Front

California, Japan, Chile, Nepal, and India have all experienced earthquakes before. What type of plate boundary must be near?

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Transform

Front

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary: Divergent, Convergent, Reform, Transform

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Divergent

Front

What is the name of the area where one crust slides underneath another (Deep Ocean Trenches are found here)?

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subduction zone

Front

What was the name given to all the continents when they were joined as one super continent?

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Pangea

Front

Which direction are the plates moving at a divergent boundary?

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moving away from each other

Front

Which direction are plates moving at a convergent boundary?

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going towards each other

Front

Which direction are plates moving at a transform boundary?

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they are moving past each other