Plate Tectonics Review

Plate Tectonics supports the idea that all continents were once fused together called _____________ .

• The rock cycle

• Supercontinent

• The crust

• Pangea

This plate boundary moves land apart, creating an ocean trench or a valley on land : ________________________

• Divergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Mid-Ocean voundary

This tectonic plate boundary creates mountain ranges: ____________________

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Mid-oceanic boundary

This tectonic plate slips past each other nor creating or destroying land formations: _____________

• Divergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Convergent boundary

• Mid-Ocean boundary

The region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core is called the ________________.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Both the crust and the mantle

• Both the mantle and the core

Which tectonic plate boundary SLIDES past each other...

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Continental

Which tectonic plate moves TOWARDS each other...

• Divergent

• Convergent

• Transform

• Continental

Which tectonic plate moves AWAY from each other...

• Divergent

• Continental

• Transform

• Covergent

Which of these is NOT causes by the moving of tectonic plates?

• Valleys

• Mountains

• Earthquakes

• Hurricanes

Who came up with the theory of Pangaea?

• Werner

• Wegener

• Newton

• Darwin