Plate Tectonics

Plate tectonics is

• the movement of the continents
• Pangaea
• the movement of lithospheric plates
• the movement of the inner core

Which is NOT evidence that supports the idea of plate tectonics?

• Plates move about 1 cm every year
• cold temperatures
• earthquakes
• fossils from South America were found in Africa

How far is it from the crust to the center of the Earth?

• 60,000 km
• 6,000 km
• 60 miles
• 6,000 feet

What is the lithosphere?

• Crust and Inner Core
• Mantle and Inner Core
• Crust and Lower Mantle
• Crust and Upper Mantle

At what plate boundary does subduction occur?

• lithosphere
• transform
• divergent
• convergent

Which of the following occurs at a transform boundary?

• earthquakes
• volcanoes and earthquakes
• volcanoes
• mountains

Plates collide at which type of boundary?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform

Plates move away from each other at which type of boundary?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform

Plates slide past each other at which type of boundary?

• convergent
• divergent
• transform

What is happening in this picture?

• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• subduction
• sea floor spreading