tectonic Plates - 3

The supercontinent in the continental drift hypothesis was called ____.

• Pantry
• Pangaea
• Wegenerland
• Eurasia

The Himalayas in South Asia are an example of what type of plate boundary?

• continental-oceanic convergent
• continental-continental convergent
• oceanic-oceanic convergent
• continental-continental divergent

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Continental volcanic arcs are associated with what type of plate boundary?

• oceanic-continental convergent
• oceanic-oceanic convergent
• continental-continental convergent
• transform

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The formation of the Hawaiian Islands is associated with ____.

• a transform boundary
• hot spots
• convergent boundaries
• divergent boundaries

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According to the theory of plate tectonics, ________.

• the asthenosphere is divided into plates
• the lithosphere is divided into plates

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What results when divergence occurs between two oceanic plates?

• a subduction zone
• seafloor spreading
• an ocean trench
• a volcanic island arc

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Oceanic lithosphere is destroyed at ______

• transform fault boundaries
• divergent boundaries
• ocean ridges
• convergent boundaries

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How does the age of the seafloor sediments change with increasing distance from the ocean ridge?

• age decreases
• age stays the same
• age increases
• age varies without a pattern

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What is the weaker, hotter zone beneath the lithosphere that allows for motion of Earth's rigid outer shell?

• crust
• outer core
• astenosphere
• inner core

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The convergence of two continental plates would produce ___________.

• island arcs
• rift valleys
• folded mountains
• trenches

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