Plate Tectonics, Layers of the Earth & Continental Drift

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What type of plate boundary & crust type usually creates tall mountains? Options: Convergent, continental-oceanic, Divergent, continental-continental, Convergent, continental-continental, Transform

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Convergent, continental-continental

Front

Earthquakes are triggered by sudden movement_________ (choose the BEST answer)

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on all plate boundaries

Front

What type of boundary is pictured? Options: Convergent, Divergent, Transform, None of these

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Transform

Front

The youngest rocks would be located _____

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Closest to the mid-ocean ridge

Front

Which type of plate boundary would cause tall mountains, like Mt. Everest, to form?

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Convergent

Front

This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel

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Inner Core

Front

Based on the map, what type of boundary created the volcanic mountains located on South America's west coast?

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Convergent

Front

The Great Rift Valley in Africa, Victoria Falls in Africa and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge were all created by this type of boundary: (HINT- it cracks the crust as plates move apart)

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Divergent

Front

What are the two types of crust? Options: continental and oceanic, ocean and upper, lower and upper, pizza and subway

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continental and oceanic

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What is the name of the area where one crust slides underneath another?

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subduction zone