Plate Tectonics

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What does lithosphere mean?

• Liquid crust

• hot inner core

• solid crust and upper mantle

• cold outer crust and hot inner crust

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How many major plate tectonics are on Earth?

• 1

• 7

• 12

• 20

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What does plate tectonics explain?

• how and why the sky is blue

• how and why the Earth spins

• how and why the wind blows

• how and why the continents move

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Why does the generation of new crust not increase the size of the Earth?

• because it falls in the trenches

• some plates slide under others causing the old crust to become molten magma again

• it does we just don't know how and why it happens

• because science rules

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How does the asthenosphere move?

• with the flow of convection currents

• with the flow of conduction currents

• with the flow of radiation currents

• with the flow of the ocean currents

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What does plastic mean in science?

• plastic botles

• something that can easily be molded or changed in shape without breaking

• easily broken

• easily destroyed

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What is built at convergent boundaries?

• rivers

• valleys

• mountains

• oceans

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What do convergent boundaries do?

• move away from each other

• move towards each other

• slides past each other

• nothing

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How do transform boundaries move?

• Under each other

• sliding past each other

• over each other

• up to create mountains.

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What is created at divergent boundaries?

• new ground

• new pencils

• mountains

• valleys

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What happens at divergent boundaries?

• plates move towards each other

• plates move in a diagonal line

• plates move away from each other

• plates break apart

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