Plate Tectonics

A break in Earth's crust along which rocks move is called a ________.

• plate
• rift
• fault
• breach

What is the name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago?

• Panthalassa
• Laurasia
• Gondwanna
• Pangaea

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The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor is called ___________.

• Divergent boundary
• Sea-floor spreading
• Convergent boundary
• Renovating 

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What is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary?

• Subduction
• Induction
• Abduction 
• Reduction

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_____________ is when two plates move toward each other.

• Convergent boundary
• Allegiant boundary
• Transform boundary
• Sliding boundary

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

• Convergent boundary
• Transform boundary
• Divergent boundary
• Insurgent boundary

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

• emergent boundary
• divergent boundary
• transform boundary
• convergent boundary

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A _________ is a valley that forms where two plates move apart.

• Fissure
• Rift valley
• Sea-floor spreading
• Fault

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The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by

• the rotation of the Earth.

• convection currents in the Asthenosphere

• the gravity of the iron-nickel core.

• the Moho discontinuity.

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There are three types of plate boundaries. Which choice is NOT a type of plate boundary?

• convergent
• thrust
• divergent
• transform