Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics

7th - 8th Grade

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38 Qs

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Plate Tectonics

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7th - 8th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A __________ is a deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle.

deep-ocean trench
rift valley
sea-floor spreading
mid-ocean ridge

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_____________ is a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

Convergent boundary
Transform boundary
Divergent boundary
Insurgent boundary

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_____________ is when two plates move toward each other.

Convergent boundary
Allegiant boundary
Transform boundary
Sliding boundary

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A _____________ is when two plates move past each other in opposite directions.

emergent boundary
divergent boundary
transform boundary
convergent boundary

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

___________ is the theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.

Seismic waves
Convection current
Divergent boundary
Plate tectonics

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Mountains form from ...

plates sliding past one another
collision of plates
plates moving away from each other

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

During sea floor spreading, molten material rises up from the mantle...

along the continents
at the mid ocean ridges
deep ocean trenches
at north and south poles

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