Plate Tectonics

Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun
• Magnetic Pole Reversal
• Convection currents in the mantle
• Faults in Mountain Ranges

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What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake
• Volcano Eruption
• Tornado
• Mountain Building

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A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart
• Come together
• Slide past each other
• subducting

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What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent
• Plate

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The theory that says Earth's continents once made up an ancient supercontinent, and have been drifting apart ever since, is called the theory of...

• Pangea
• Plate Tectonics
• Natural Selection
• Gravity

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How is it possible for new crust to be formed without increasing the surface area of the Earth?

• Crust is destroyed at the same time it is created
• New crust is underwater where it sinks
• New crust breaks more easily than old crust

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What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic
• ocean and upper
• lower and upper
• pizza and subway

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Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?

• At plate boundaries
• in oceans
• in the middle of continents
• in the middle of plates

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When one plate sides under neath another, it _________ and the magma _________.

• hardens, sinks
• melts, sinks
• hardens, rises
• melts, rises

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