Earth Science

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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A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

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

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Which of the following is the name of the ancient supercontinent formed 28 Million Years ago.

• Pangea
• Gondwanda
• Laurasia
• Neverland

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What type of plate boundary is this, where plates slide past each other?

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Plate

A subduction zone is formed...

• when one tectonic plate sinks below another
• at every type of convergent plate boundary
• at every type of divergent plate boundary
• at transform boundaries

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Shifting pieces of the Earth's crust are called

• tectonic plates
• volcano
• magma
• island

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True or False; oceanic crust is thinner, but denser than continental crust.

• True

• False

the place where two different plates have contact.

• Pacific Plate

• Mountains

• Earthquakes

• Plate Boundaries

Occurs when two tectonic plates move toward each other and collide

• convergent boundary

• subduction

• volcanic eruptions

• divergent boundary

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Events in which molten rock spews out from the mantle to the surface of Earth as ash, lava and gases; major geological events that occur when a dense plate subducts below a less dense plate

• Mountain Building

• Convergent boundary

• Divergent boundary

• Volcanic eruptions

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