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Which of the following causes Earth's tectonic plates to move?

• Energy from the Sun

• Magnetic Pole Reversal

• Convection currents in the mantle

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What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate

• Divergent

• Convergent

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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake

• Volcano Eruption

• Tornado

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A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart

• Come together

• Slide past each other

What type of plate boundary is this?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Plate

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Folded mountains are formed by _______ plate boundaries

• Convergent

• Transform

• Plate

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What are the two types of crust

• continental and oceanic

• ocean and upper

• pizza and subway

A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another

• at every type of convergent plate boundary

• at transform boundaries

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