Plate Tectonics

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What would you find at a convergent boundary between two plates with continental crust?

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Mountain Range

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True or False : Sea-floor Spreading adds new material to the ocean floor?

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True

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Which type of plate boundary would cause folded mountains to form?

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convergent

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The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge were both created by this type of plate boundary.

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divergent

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What drives tectonic plate movement? Options: gravity, coriolis effect, convection currents, the earth's magnetic core

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convection currents

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Transform boundaries are most likely to produce what phenomenon?

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earthquakes

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When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct?

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oceanic

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Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift because...

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Wegener could not identify the force that moved the continents

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In Seafloor Spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts or flows out

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along mid-ocean ridges

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The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle is known as

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subduction