APES: Plate Tectonics, Geology

Divergent boundaries are responsible for which of the following?

• Seafloor Spreading

• Underwater Lakes

• Mountains

• Canyons

Convergent boundaries are when:

• Two tectonic plates move away from each other.

• Two tectonic plates move back and forth against each other

• Two tectonic plates move towards each other.

• Two tectonic plates sway with each other simple dance.

Transform plates are responsible for:

• Earthquakes

• Seafloor spreading

• Volcanoes

• Decipticons

What the currents underneath the earth that cause tectonic plates to move?

• Concave currents.

• Carbon currents

• Water currents

• Convection currents

The Law of Superposition helps scientists to determine what?

• The absolute age of rock layers
• The age of fossils
• The relative age of rock layers
• the super powers of rocks

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The youngest material of the ocean floor is found at mid-ocean _________.

• ridges
• trenches
• basins
• rifts

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The theory of _______ states that Earth’s crust and upper mantle are broken into sections that are in constant, slow motion.

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• seafloor spreading
• divergent boundaries

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Many scientists think hot plastic-like rock in the mantle is forced upward toward the surface, cools, and sinks.  This process is called a(n) _________.

• earthquake
• convergent boundary
• volcano
• convection current

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The _________ is the thinnest layer of Earth.

• outer core
• inner core
• mantle
• crust

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_______ are formed when two continental plates collide.

• Mountain ranges
• Transform faults
• Rift valleys
• Volcanoes

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