Plate Tectonics

What type of boundary moves the plates apart?

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Subduction

What type of plate boundary moves the plates closer together?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• subduction

What type of boundary do two plates slide past each other in?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• subduction

What is it called when one plate goes under another plate?

• Hot spot

• transform

• subduction

• convergent

What is a small area or region with a relatively hot temperature in comparison to its surroundings?

• oceanic crust

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

• hot spot

Name the layers of the Earth from the inside to the outside.

• outer core

• mantle

• inner core

• crust

What was the name of the huge supercontinent millions of years ago?

What is the type of plate boundary that forms volcanoes?

• converging

• diverging

• transform

• continental crust

What is the lower (plastic) mantle that flows like hot tar? Also known as the weak sphere.

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

• moho

• continental crust

What is the upper part of the mantle that is cool and rigid called? Also known as the rocky sphere.

• asthenosphere

• oceanic crust

• lithosphere

• rift valley