Plate Tectonics

This layer of the earth is 200km thick beneath the crust and contains hotter softer rock that flows like lava

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Inner Core

• Mantle

When to continental plates collide this process is called

• Convergent Subduction

• Divergent Collision

• Convergent Collision

• Transform Subduction

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The lithosphere is one of the least dense layers of earth where life exists also known as the

• crust

• mantle

• inner core

• outer core

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When to plates move apart the boundary is

• convergent

• transform

• convergent subduction

• divergent

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The movement of Earth's tectonic plates is generated by

• convection currents

• radioactive processes

• thermonuclear dynamics

• electric slide

Oceanic crust sinks beneath continental crust because it is

• More Dense

• Weighed down by water

• Weighed down by magma

• Less Dense

When oceanic plates move toward a continental plate it creates a

• coral zone

• tectonic zone

• subduction zone

• collision zone

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When two plates slide past each other this is known as a

• convergent collision boundary

• transform boundary

• convergent subduction boundary

• divergent boundary

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The Earth's inner and outer core is mostly composed of which two metals

• mercury and nickel

• mercury and copper

• iron and nickel

• iron and alluminum

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This middle layer of earth, solid rock and is where convection currents occur

• Lithosphere

• Outer Core

• Athenosphere

• Mantle