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Earth's Layers & Plate Tectonics

Authored by Chancee Glover

Science

6th Grade

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Earth's Layers & Plate Tectonics
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A rift valley occurs when what kind of plates diverge?

continental, continental

continental, oceanic

oceanic, oceanic

dinner, salad

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Divergent boundaries

collide

separate

go under one another

disappear

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

At converging boundaries, oceanic plates are pushed under continental plates because they are

larger than continental plates

warmer and less dense than continental plates

colder and less dense than continental plates

colder and more dense than continental plates

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This is the name of the hypothesis that continents slowly moved from one single land mass to their current location

trenches

continental drift

magnetism

subduction

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Plates move away from each other at

divergent boundaries

convergent boundaries

subduction boundaries

transform boundaries

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The presence of this on several continents supports the idea of the continental drift therory.

fossils

gravity

earthquakes

mountains

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When an oceanic plate and an continental plate converge________ are formed.

rift valleys

mid-ocean ridges

trenches and volcanoes

asthenospheres

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