Plate boundaries

The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by

• the rotation of the Earth.

• convection currents in the Asthenosphere

• the gravity of the iron-nickel core.

• the Moho discontinuity.

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Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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What is represented by the picture? 

• Sea-floor spreading
• Pangea
• How the continents are arranged today
• Volcanoes

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Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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Name the boundary

• convergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

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Sometimes, when two tectonic plates collide, one is pushed below the other; this action at the convergent boundary is called...

• Divergent boundary
• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary
• Subduction

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When a continental plate is pulled away from another continental plate, the area of crust that is thinned and pulled apart is called. 

• a trench
• a rift zone or rift valley
• ocean spreading ridge
• Continental crust

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When convergent plates collide, if both plates are pushed upward, this forms.  

• Fissures
• Mountain Ranges
• Volcanoes
• Rock Cycle

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Creates new ocean floor:

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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The San Andreas fault line runs through California and commonly produces earthquakes. This plate boundary is called a:

• Convergent

• Transform

• Subduction

• Divergent