Plate Tectonics Spring 2021

Increased seismic activity often leads to what?

• heavy rain fall

• a meteor shower

• thunderstorms

• volcanic activity

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The subduction zone is when:

• two plates collide forcing one to go under the other

• when you put a suction cup on a wall

• when mountains form

• what causes tsunamis

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The movement of continental crusts is explained by this theory.

• Big Bang Theory

• Theory of Plate Tectonics

• Theory of Subduction

• Theory of Boundaries

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What is the result when two plates slide past each other?

• volcanoes

• mountains

• earthquakes

• alien invasions

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Divergent plate boundaries form:

• ridges and rifts

• volcanoes

• tunnels

• caves

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What evidence do we have for continental drift?

• no evidence

• we can watch the continents move apart

• the exact same fossil found in Brazil and in West Africa

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What process is shown in this image?

• boiling pasta

• convection currents

• mountain building

• an earth layer

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Where does the heat in magma come from?

• lava

• it makes its own heat

• the crust and mantle

• the sun

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When two plates collide and one is forced under the other, what forms?

• dust storms

• tsunamis

• tornadoes

• trenches

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Seafloor spreading occurs at divergent boundaries. What is happening at these boundaries?

• new crust is being formed

• the seafloor is melting

• the earth is getting smaller

• the earth is getting bigger