Plate Tectonics and Seafloor Spreading

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

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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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A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

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

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The area where two tectonic plates meet.

• mantle
• focus
• plate boundary
• convection

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Most volcanoes and earthquakes occur...

• along the coast
• along tectonic plate boundaries
• in the Arctic
• in the ocean

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Wegener’s theory that all continents had once been joined together in a single landmass and have drifted apart since.

• Seafloor Spreading

• Continental Drift

• Subduction

• Pangaea

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The thin, solid, outermost layer of Earth; made of less dense silicates and is either continental (landmasses) or oceanic (ocean floors)

• mantle

• crust

• pangea

• earthquake

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Huge pieces of crust that slowly move on the upper ductile part of the mantle

• pangea

• continental drift

• tectonic plate

• plate tectonics

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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 cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking is called____.

• convection currents
• water cycle
• Earth cycle
• tension force

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