PLATE TECTONICS VOCABULARY QUIZ 701

Which of the following is found in the middle of the ocean floor, where plates are pulling apart?

• Mountain

• Fault

• Plateau

• Mid Ocean Ridge

When an oceanic and a continental plate collide, the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate into the mantle beneath is called _________________.

• Divergent

• Transform

• Subduction

• Mid Ocean Ridge

What is the name of the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the up-welling of magma at mid ocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side?

• Mountain building

• Trench formation

• Seafloor spreading

• Faulting

The thin solid outermost layer of the Earth above the mantle.

• Crust

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Core

The name of the single landmass that broke apart 225 million years ago and gave rise to today’s continents.

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

• Pangea

• Wegner

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The theory that states the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations

• Subduction

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Pangea

The layer of hot rock, between the Earth’s crust and core.

• Mantle

• Asthenosphere

• subduction

• conduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies and moves apart.

• Subduction

• Sea-floor Spreading

• Heat Transfer

• Convection Current

The movement of a fluid, caused by rising hot materials and falling cooling materials resulting a constant cycle.

• Convection

• Outer Core

• Heat Transfer

• Convection Current

A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

• Divergent boundary

• Lithosphere

• Seafloor spreading

• Transform plate boundary