Plate Tectonics

What are the puzzle pieces of the Earth's surface called?

• Tectonic plates
• Puzzles
• Earthquakes

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

• Core
• Mantle
• Crust

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Slide/Transform

What type of boundary is shown in the diagram?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Slide/Transform

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

What are the two types of crust

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

The area where two tectonic plates meet.

• mantle
• focus
• plate boundary
• convection

A __________ forms where plates diverge on land. Hint: #28/29

• rift valley

• mid-ocean rift ridge

• mountain rift

• rift trench

The upper part of the mantle that is semisolid where the plates of the lithosphere move is called the

• Mantle

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Crust