Plate tectonic test review

Convection currents cause the movements of the crustal plates.

• True

• False

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Based on the diagram above, what type of geologic event is most likely to occur at this type of boundary?

• ocean basin

• earthquake

• volcanic eruption

• mountain building

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Which student’s statement best describes the movement of Earth’s plates?

• Allison

• Ben

• Christy

• David

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The idea that the continents were once part of a giant landmass

• continental drift

• convection currents

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

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Movement of gas or liquid caused by temperature

• continental drift

• convection currents

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

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Form when two continental plates collide

• Pangea

• plate tectonics

• mountains

• volcanoes

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Form when an oceanic and a continental plate collide

• Pangea

• Plate tectonics

• mountains

• volcanoes

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What are the names of plates 3 and 5?

• Eurasion and African

• Australian and Pacific

• North American and South American

• Eurasion and North American

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Models are great ways of representing complex ideas with a simple representation. An example of this is the model below of the layers of the Earth.In the diagram, how is the heat being transferred?

• convection

• radiation

• conduction

• specific

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The Himalayan Mountain Chain is most likely the result of which of the following interactions between major tectonic plates?

• The Indo-Australian Plate is moving toward the Eurasian Plate.

• The South American Plate is moving away from the African Plate.

• The Pacific Plate is sliding northward past the North American Plate.

• The Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate are diverging.

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