Earth Unit Study Guide

A ______ is a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying large slabs of continental and oceanic crust.

• wedge
• plate
• chunk
• fault

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

• plate
• rift
• fault
• breach

The diagram illustrates which type of boundary?

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

The diagram illustrates which type boundary?

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

The diagram illustrates which type boundary?

• divergent boundary

• convergent boundary

• transform boundary

This type of boundary creates folded mountains.

• transform

• divergent

• continental-continental convergent

• continental-oceanic convergent

This feature can be found along a divergent boundary

• mid-ocean ridge

• folded mountains

• deep sea trench

Subduction means.....

• one plate goes under another plate

• two plates slide past each other

• two plate collide and form folded mountains

Sea-floor spreading explains how.....

• new crust is created at a divergent boundary

• volcanoes are formed on continents

• deep sea trenches are formed

divergent plates move

• away fro each other

• towards each other

• slide past each other