Distribution of Oceans and Continents

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

What is a divergent boundary? 

• two plates moving towards each other
• two plates grinding/sliding past each other.
• two plates moving away from each other
• plates that don't move at all

What forms at the divergent boundary? 

• deep-ocean trench
• mid-ocean Ridge
• land ridge
• the Pacific Ocean

Plates slide grind/slide  past one another at ____________ boundaries.

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submerged

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

What is the term for the process by which a heavier, denser plate slides under a less dense plate?

• plate boundary
• submersion
• accretion
• subduction

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• subducting

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• submerged

At which plate boundary is crust neither created nor destroyed?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• submerged

The lithospheric plates are constantly moving at a rapid rate.

• True

• False

• Maybe

• Not sure