Plate Tectonics Quiz

Name for the single land mass that broke apart 200 million years ago to create the 7 continents.

• Pangea

• Panorama

• Pandora

• Continental Mass

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The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor. At the same time, older strips of rock move outward from either side of the ridge

• mid-ocean ridge

• sea-floor spreading

• Mariana trench

• fault lines

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Deepest spot in the ocean

• Igneous Intrusion

• Convection Current

• Strike Slip Fault

• Mariana Trench

A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks towards the mantle

• deep-ocean trenches

• mid-ocean ridge

• Mariana trench

• Mount Everest

The process caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid

• Convection Current

• Plate Tectonics

• Igneous Intrusion

• Pangea

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The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary

• earthquake

• rift valley

• transformation

• subduction

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Plate tectonics is the idea that....

• the earth's crust is made of large pieces called plates, that cannot move

• the earth's crust is made of large pieces called plates, that have moved over time

• the continents float on the oceans like plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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True or False: The tectonic plates are still moving today.

• True

• False

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Plates sliding past each other is called a _____________ boundary.

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Plates colliding or coming together is known as a ____________ boundary.

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

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