Plate Tectonics

The physical layer of Earth made of solid rock and soil is called the ___________. 

• mesosphere
• lithosphere
• asthenosphere
• mantle

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The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a .....

• Convergent Boundary
• Divergent Boundary
• Transform Boundary
• Plate Boundary

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What type of plate boundary is this?

• Plate
• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform

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What type of event will occur at this boundary?

• Earthquake
• Volcano Eruption
• Tornado
• Mountain Building

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A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

• Pull apart
• Come together
• Slide past each other
• subducting

A fault is formed by the movement of a __________ plate boundary

• Transform
• Convergent
• Divergent

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Mountains are created when....

• Two continental plates collide
• Two oceanic plates pull apart
• An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate
• Two continental plates pull apart

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The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary

• Divergent
• Convergent
• Reform
• Transform

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What are the two types of crust

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

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The area where two tectonic plates meet.

• mantle
• focus
• plate boundary
• convection

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